From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3495 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: update Gnus to 5.10.6 in Debian/unstable Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:25:15 +0000 Organization: Christ Church Chelmsford U.K. Message-ID: <87oes66n10.fsf@millingtons.org> References: <87r7x2ngyu.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669594 19201 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:18 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!modem-969.awesome.dialup.pol.co.UK!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-969.awesome.dialup.pol.co.uk (62.25.131.201) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076487404 39250677 I 62.25.131.201 ([213515]) X-Orig-Path: glynthebearded.millingtons.org!news X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Our Lady of Lourdes, A.D. 2004 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1uQ02L9G3RT82Ezbiypj4XcsWUc= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3636 Original-Lines: 47 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3636 Tue Jan 17 17:32:18 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3495 Archived-At: Fabian Braennstroem 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 8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ ;; 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)) 8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ Glyn