From: spj@ukelele.gcr.com (Guru Aleph_Null) Subject: Re: Can't run emacs Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:35:34 GMT
ruth@fwi.uva.nl (Joeri van Ruth) writes:
>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.
Whatever happened to "Can't find libBlah-x.y.z error"? It would be a
lot more enlightening than just a segv-core-dump. (Yes, I just checked
this thread out when I decided to test the copy of Emacs that comes
with SLS Linux 1.03. I'm off to snag the X1 disk now...)
>Hope this helps,
>Joeri
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