How to install emacs on Kubuntu

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-08-11, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Everything except backports, why?

The comments in the config file seemed a little scary (about
how the stuff has had little testing).  Since I had 0 available
packages, I didn't figure that backports was the problem.

>> It appears that aptitude was ignoring the proxy setting I
>> entered via the network manager. After setting the environment
>> variable "http_proxy", it looks like aptitude is working from
>> the command line.
>
> Well, I can't help on proxies.  Have never used them;
> don't know what they do or why one is needed and don't
> think I want to know. Sorry about that.

I've also had little experience with them, and this is
definitely the first time I've set up a Debian or Ubuntu system
behind a proxy.  There seems to be a bit of a hole in the way
things are handled when there is a proxy -- unless I simply
missed a step in the install where I was supposed to configure
the proxy for apt/dpgk to use.

The tricky thing about the GUI is that they hide what's going
on.  All you get is a twirling status bar and then a crash --
there's no indication that aptitude is trying to connect
directly to the server instead of via a proxy.

>> Anyhow, the underlying cause of all this is that configuring a
>> proxy in the network manager doesn't make apt/aptitude work.
>
> That could explain why you were having trouble that you
> normally don't see, I guess. I'm dumb on that issue. I expect
> you could teach me a lot about command line use.  Glad to see
> you are making progress and hope it continues.

Things are working fine now.  I've replaced the ssh keys with
the same ones used by the other Linux installations on that
machine, and I can ssh in to the box without warnings. :)

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