Re: HTML Emails

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

Hi Randy,

> It sounds like that's the way to go, but my package manager "client"
> is broken, and manually installing gnus seems to be a nightmare.

Why do you think that?

,----[ ~/repos/gnus/README ]

[...]

| To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously
| done, because you are reading this.
| 
| You should definitely byte-compile the source files.  To do that, you
| can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
| 
| Do not say "make install".  I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install".  If
| you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
| I'll be very annoyed.  If you say "make install" and things happen to
| work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
| won't.
| 
| If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make
| EMACS=xemacs".
| 
| Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is.  You might put something
| like
| 
|    (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/ngnus-0.7/lisp") load-path))
|    (require 'gnus-load)
| 
| in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things.
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That's all that is needed to get Gnus working.

Bye,
Tassilo