Hi, Special thanks to Ingo Strauch and Johnathan Gurley for suggestions. I tried both rpm -ql xemacs-info-21.4.15-43 and rpm -qil *xemacs and both provoke the response: package ... is not installed Related question: xemacs is an 'upmarket' version of emacs; does this mean that I should have installed emacs and then xemacs, or can I install xemacs only? I tried to install xemacs first and had problems, so I thought "Oh well, good old emacs will do" and so I tried to install it. Still no luck. I am using Developer Studio at work on 'that' OS but on Linux I am stuck with kwrite - a bit slow for development. I really need emacs and want LaTex. Thanks for your suggestions fellows; much appreciated. Regards, Colin PS: I was told that I should "just hit reply"; are my responses okay? In his letter, ezmlm didn't explain how to 'reply' to a posting. On Wednesday 09 March 2005 07:23, Ingo Strauch wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:53:01 +1100
Colin Carter
wrote: Your suggestion worked, but unfortunately I always find that a solution with Linux just leads me to the next problem. rpm -q says that it is installed - but where?
rpm -ql xemacs-info-21.4.15-43
gives a list of all files belonging to this package.
From the root I do a find on *xemacs and get a little, a find on emacs* gave me 23 hits, a repeat of find on emacs* gave me 67 hits but in no way have I found any executable files.
Did you really use 'find'? If that's the case you might want to also try 'locate'. This of course only works when the files in question were already installed when the locate-database was last updated.
I noticed a lot of emacs/gnome stuff. I am only using kde: is this a problem?
Nope.
PS: I was chastised for posting this question under 'programming' (I thought that emacs was a developer's tool) and told I should post here.
I find it a bit strange that they suggested to post an RPM/emacs related question to the xfree mailinglist ;-) Just looking at the list names at http://lists.suse.com/archive/ it seems to me that kind of question would be best suited in linux-e. Not too strong an opinion, though.