install xemacs problems

[wei li]

How can I install it?  I am a beginner for ubuntu:
apt-cache search xemacs
did not give me anything for xemacs.

Thanks,
Wei

--- Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> wrote:

> wei li wrote:
> > I tried to install xemacs on ubuntu 6.06, but the ./configure
> always
> > has problems in recognizing the X system:
> >   What window system should XEmacs use?                   none
> 
> > How should I fix the problem?
> 
> Maybe it's possible that you are missing the -dev packages for your
> window system, e.g. Gnome has a tool called gnome-config in
> libgnome-dev
> which might give the configure file a clue (however, I haven;t
> looked at
> the configure file).
> 
> Another question: Why do you want to compile xemacs from scratch? I
> believe there is a package called xemacs21 in dapper/universe.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Carsten
> 
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