From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:17:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g485hl$ggg$1@registered.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzfckcfb.fsf@gmx.de>
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> On 2008-06-29 00:20 +0200, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
>
>> I decided to upgrade my office machine to the newest Ubuntu (8.04/Hardy).
>>
>> Unfortunately, 'gnus' failed to work from the very start (problems
>> with 'gnus-load', ...).
>
> The Gnus in Ubuntu is not byte-compiled for the emacs22 package, so
> Emacs will use the one that comes with Emacs which may lack some
> feature that you want in your .gnus.el. See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnus/+bug/133621.
>
>> Does anyone have Gnus running with Emacs22 on Ubuntu?
>>
>> I removed Emacs22 and installed Emacs21 and Gnus is usable (it is what
>> I'm using now to post this article), but doesn't seem quite right".
>
> Forget about the Gnus that comes with Ubuntu, it is completely
> unmaintained, very outdated and lacks documentation
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnus/+bug/227925).
>
> See http://gnus.org/distribution.html how to get a newer version.
>
> Sven
Ubuntu, like Debian, uses some munged site-lips/autoload system from what
I can gather and installing from source is not that straightforward. I
may be wrong and things have changed. Just a heads up on that one and
more info can be found in our friend Google.
The emacs (22.2.1) with Debian Lenny works fine "out of the box".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 22:20 Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Kenneth Jacker
2008-06-29 3:23 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus mike.rosset+gnus
2008-06-29 6:00 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Sven Joachim
2008-06-29 14:17 ` Richard G Riley [this message]
2008-06-29 21:11 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Kenneth Jacker
2008-06-30 6:51 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus David Kastrup
2008-06-30 18:02 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Kenneth Jacker
2008-06-30 19:25 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus David Kastrup
2008-07-01 15:04 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Peter Smerdon
2008-07-01 15:33 ` Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Kenneth Jacker
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