On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > >> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. > > That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would > go like this: > > > sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2.0-dev \ > libgnutls28-dev libfontconfig1-dev libotf-dev libm17n-dev \ > libtiff5-dev libxpm-dev libncurses5-dev libpng12-dev \ > librsvg2-dev libgif-dev imagemagick libgconf2-dev libasound2-dev \ > texinfo liblockfile-dev libmagick++-6.q16-dev gnutls-bin \ > autoconf automake > > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git > > cd emacs > > ./autogen.sh > > ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk > > make bootstrap > > sudo make install >
Thanks for the approach. I have 2 questions. I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also work? I use xfce and I believe I don't have Gnome libs installed I think. Would that require any changes to the configure option above? Thanks once again sivaram --
