From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11163 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:17:23 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87vdztp5ga.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <87tzfckcfb.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214750510 5821 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 14:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:41:50 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 16:42:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCy6o-0001aJ-MR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCy5y-0006Jy-G8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:41:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX18MDLy/jJs+V4CW6AT6+ou2Nuhw0iJ233eNGQDWKRKy8T8PPx4Zsmj6cItlBA/mtoHiqyobIfW+D/H6+wI60otfWO0IEfY3LYC5cKnz7XTfTApDNmYW8PS1l6rt6jshjit6MYV/MJgsaQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:17:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18FfZE1NHz9ijsFnCEp0Cof6c9SzsUmoX5cSlqkaD1syQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:ctmJ9QThdwT+mCTuXRTsc7LKR+E= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:81381 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11163 Archived-At: Sven Joachim 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".