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Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal
From: |
Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:19 +1200 |
> I recently installed Emacs 22.1 from source on a PclinuxOs 2007
> install. The install went well apparently without errors. However the
> only way I can use emacs is through a konsole or xterm session . I
> also tried to make a menu entry for emacs in the menu editor (I am
> using KDE) , I simply put the command entry as 'emacs' however this
> fails to work at all. Will emacs only work as part of a terminal
> session or is there something else I should do. I am going to try it
> on my Debian(Etch) install later.
You're probably missing some header files, e.g, /usr/include/ncurses.h (on
Ubuntu it's in the package libncurses5-dev). You can check by looking through
config.log in the top directory. Also, when you run configure at the start, a
list of how it will build is given at the end.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal, Tim X, 2007/06/11