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Re: Updating to Emacs 24
From: |
S Boucher |
Subject: |
Re: Updating to Emacs 24 |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:14:20 -0700 (PDT) |
----- Original Message -----
> I downloaded the Pretest version of Emacs 24, having Emacs 23.1.1
> installed on Ubuntu. Before I mess up my whole configuration, I thought
> I rather ask a few (quite basic) questions here:
>
> 1. do I have to uninstall Emacs 23.1.1 before installing Emacs 24?
No.
mkdir /some/dir/for/emacs24
cd /some/dir/for/emacs24
mkdir soft
tar xzf emacs-24.tgz
cd emacs
./configure --prefix=`cd ../soft&&pwd`
make all
make install
Note: In the process of configuring you might have to install additional
package using synaptic to be able to compile emacs.
Then run with /some/dir/for/emacs24/soft/bin/emacs
or do
export PATH=/some/dir/for/emacs24/soft/bin:$PATH
and run emacs
Caveats:
- you may or may not have problems with private .elc files
- maybe some config/data files might get upgrade to 24, and they might then not
work if you go back to 23
I don't know how real those caveats are.
> 2. I load most .el files from my .emacs.de, which is in my Dropbox-folder
> and therefore accesible from my Linux and my Win 7 machine, and not from the
> /usr/share/emacs directories - will this configuration be messed up by
> the new installation?
See my caveats. I can't answer with confidence on private config/data files.
> 3. should I change from Ubuntu 32 to 64, are there no problems with the
> 64bit version?
That seems unrelated to emacs. But linux distros work quite well on 64bits...
provided you have a 64bit processor :-)