From: Thomas Dunbar (tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu)
Date: 05/31/93


From: tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Subject: generic nature of many Linux posts
Date: 1 Jun 1993 00:20:43 GMT


 just another little example of how non-Linux specific many linux
sysadmin tasks are:
 
 i wanted emacs 19; the work having been done by others, i just
ftp'd the emacs-19.9.tar.z source (5megs) from prep.ai.mit.edu
and then:

cd /usr
tar zxvf /mnt/src/emacs-19.9.tar.z
mv emacs-19.9 Emacs
cd Emacs
./configure i386-linux --prefix=/usr --run-in-place
make
mv src/emacs /usr/bin
emacs

 and there's my new Emacs just waiting for Calc and other elisp
packages to be ported. did have to update my .emacs with stuff
like

(global-set-key [mode-line C-S-mouse-2] 'describe-key)

but there's nothing linux specific there.