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Re: Changes After Ubuntu Upgrade
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Changes After Ubuntu Upgrade |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:57:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, Jul 01 2006, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> >> Once I added "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/gnus" to the front, I
> >> was able to use the 5.9.0 version of 'gnus'. (Note a copy of
> >> that path *is* in the fifth-to-the-last entry above).
>
> rs> Note that 5.9 is quite old. I'd recommend to use 5.10.8 ("No
> rs> Gnus" is the development version).
>
> OK. I went ahead and removed the Ubuntu 'gnus' package, and changed
> to gnus-5.10.8 from the 'tar' file.
>
> When I first started the newest version, it asked if I wanted to
> convert my files to 5.10.8. After first backing up ;-), I said 'y'.
>
> Everything seems OK except for one thing: many, many of my previous
> read files showed up again as unread. Not sure why that happened ...
This shouldn't happen when upgrading. Downgrading isn't save in
general, though.
> PS One other thing. I'm using emacs-21.4.1 ... is that fully
> compatible with gnus-5.10.8?
Yes, Gnus 5.10.8 is supposed to be compatible with Emacs 21 (and even
20.7).
Bye, Reiner.
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