From: ruth@fwi.uva.nl (Joeri van Ruth) Subject: Re: Can't run emacs Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 08:52:58 GMT
chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:
>I've just install the "base" SLS Linux (ie a,b,c disk sets), downloaded
>today from tsx-11. Whenever I try to run emacs, there's a short (about
>1 second) delay, followed by the message
> "segmentation violation: core dumped"
>I'm a total novice to Linux, having had it running for about an hour :-)
>I've read the FAQ and the emacs "man" page but can't find any clue to
>this. Everything else that I've tried runs fine.
>Could anyone help, please?
The SLS emacs installation needs the XWindow libraries to run. This
is often very annoying. You do not need to install the whole X
series. Just ftp to tsx-11, and look in the SLS/x[1-9] directories
for a file called something like "libs.tgz". Download it, put it on
your linux box and type
"sysinstall -install libs.tgz"
Now they are in your /lib ot /usr/lib directory, where emacs will find
them.
Hope this helps,
Joeri
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