Re: [AUCTeX] Installing without root permission

[David Scott]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> David Scott <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> >
> > > David Scott <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > I would like to install AUCTeX myself on a Unix machine where I don't
> > > > have root permission. I downloaded that latest version of AUCTeX, ran
> > > > .configure and make but make install failed. I couldn't see how to
> > > > have it install in a directory where I have write permission.

some stuff skipped here which shows I don't know what I am doing and 
haven't properly read the documentation

> It might be possible to walk you all the way through a manual
> installation, pointing out the instructions piece by piece that you
> missed on the first go.  But I think it would be a waste of both your
> and our time.
>
> Please just download the precompiled XEmacs package from AUCTeX's
> download page and use either the package manager to install it, or
> just unpack it into your personal package directory.

This was very good advice. I did this and it all seems fine. Menus, 
buttons and syntax highlighting all are working as they should. Looks very 
nice.

Thanks for the assistance

David Scott

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