Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try adding a line like: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main > > then run "aptitude update" and try it again. That did it! Thanks a LOT. Nishita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 17:02, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Nishita Desai wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: >>> How does your sources.list look? >>> >> >> sources.list: >> >>

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Gerlach
Nishita Desai wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch cont

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:20, Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > > How does your sources.list look? > > sources.list: > > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main # deb cdrom:[

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:15 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote: > Try installing emacs22-gtk. That package does not exist in Etch. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:55 +0530 "Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: > > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Build

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error messages. > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Bui