Re: update Gnus to 5.10.6 in Debian/unstable

[Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>]

Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:

> I have a problem updating Gnus in Debian/unstable. The apt-get
> installation works ok, but starting Gnus I see wrong numbers of unread
> article in my group-buffer. E.G. this group is not even there. Typing L
> I find gnu.emacs.gnus, but I am not able to access the group. I get
> this error-message: 

>couldn't request group (no such directory)

Interesting - I've no idea why this is so!  While you are waiting for
someone with a Clue to answer ....  try unsubscribing the group and then
subscribing again. (For some reason your new Gnus is not finding the
group, so give it a reason to look again!)

> Even sending mails with smtp doesn't work anymore (I forgot the
> error-message).
The error-message would certainly help.
>
> What can I do to upgrade Gnus nicely? Should I compile it from source?

That is easy enough to do. Unpack the tarball into either $HOME/elisp or
somewhere in /usr/local (so that it will not interfere with Debian's
package management).  Do the "./configure ; make" routine but don't do
"make install" - just add the relevant directories to your emacs
load-path _early_ (ie before you do anything else about Gnus!)  in your
.emacs

eg 
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;; for the latest greatest gnus.
(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/elisp/gnus/lisp") load-path))
   (require 'gnus-load)

(require 'info)
  (setq Info-directory-list
        (cons "~/elisp/gnus/texi" Info-directory-list))
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Glyn