How to install emacs on Kubuntu

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2008-08-11, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Grant, I'm certainly not expert but it sounds
> to
> > me that you don't have /etc/apt/sources list set
> up on
> > your pc which should have been set up on the
> install
> > unless you missed it or clicked the wrong button
> > during install. First check the file
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and I'll bet it just has
> entries
> > for  the CD.
> 
> Looks OK to me:
> 
> 
Well, it's not fully activated; you still have some
items(repositories) commented out so they wont be
checked.
Backports and Canonical are notable. Suggest you
uncomment all listings, then do "sudo aptitude update"
followed by "aptitude search emacs". If you find
nothing, it's not in the listed repos and you may have
to google for it.  I did an apt show on emacs and it's
there:

lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~$ aptitude show emacs
Package: emacs
State: not installed
Version: 22.1-0ubuntu10.1
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
<ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 36.9k
Depends: emacs22-gtk | emacs22 | emacs22-nox
Provides: editor, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader,
news-reader
Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
 GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text
editor. This is a metapackage which will always depend
on the latest Emacs release.

lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~$

I'm assuming you are familiar with the command line
and use of apt-get/aptitude. You can also use the GUI
that I mentioned in my first reply.  Btw, did you
activate the sources list as I suggested(i could be
getting this mixed up with another reply but it
applies in this case as well).  If you have any doubts
how to use apt or the package manager GUI's you should
make it known in your posts so the proper help can be
give. Emacs is in the repos.

>
----------------------/etc/apt/sources.list----------------------
> # deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release
> i386 (20080701.2)]/ hardy main restricted
> # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes
> for how to upgrade to
> # newer versions of the distribution.
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main
> restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy
> main restricted
> 
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final
> release of the
> ## distribution.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates main restricted
> 
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY
> UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please
> satisfy yourself as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please
> note that software in
> ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates
> from the Ubuntu security
> ## team.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy
> universe
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy
> universe
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates universe
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates universe
> 
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY
> UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please
> satisfy yourself as to 
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please
> note that software in 
> ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates
> from the Ubuntu
> ## security team.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy
> multiverse
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy
> multiverse
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates multiverse
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-updates multiverse
> 
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software
> from the 'backports'
> ## repository.
> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have
> been tested as
> ## extensively as that contained in the main
> release, although it includes
> ## newer versions of some applications which may
> provide useful features.
> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL
> NOT receive any review
> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> # deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
> # deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
> 
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software
> from Canonical's
> ## 'partner' repository. This software is not part
> of Ubuntu, but is
> ## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors
> as a service to Ubuntu
> ## users.
> # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy
> partner
> # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy
> partner
> 
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security
> main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> hardy-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security
> universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> hardy-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security
> multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
> hardy-security multiverse
>
----------------------/etc/apt/sources.list----------------------
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards                   grante            
> Yow! ... I want FORTY-TWO
>                                   at              
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>                                visi.com           
> installed within SIX AND A
>                                                   
> HALF HOURS!!!
> 
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Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net