Can't install emacs on freshly installed? ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso

[Robert Heller]

There is also Jasspa MicroEmacs, which is a very small EMacs clone.  It has 
its own simple extension language.

http://www.jasspa.com/

There are deb files for i586 and x86_64.  There are sources that compile for 
other processor types (arm32 and arm64).

At Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:50:56 -0500 noloader at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 7:58 PM Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> >
> > Trying to install emacs on a freshly installed
> > ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso:
> >
> >   # apt install emacs
> >   WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
> >
> >   Reading package lists...
> >   Building dependency tree...
> >   Reading state information...
> >   Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> >   requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> >   distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> >   or been moved out of Incoming.
> >   The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> >   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >    emacs : Depends: emacs-gtk (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable or
> >                     emacs-pgtk (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable or
> >                     emacs-lucid (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable or
> >                     emacs-nox (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable
> >   E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> >   # apt install emacs-gtk
> >   WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
> >
> >   Reading package lists...
> >   Building dependency tree...
> >   Reading state information...
> >   Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> >   requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> >   distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> >   or been moved out of Incoming.
> >   The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> >   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >    libgccjit0 : Depends: gcc-14-base (= 14-20240412-0ubuntu1) but 14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04 is to be installed
> >   E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Related, emacs and its dependencies have become quite a mess, imho.
> The gcc and libgccjit dependency are for JIT'ing elisp. It is a new
> feature.
> 
> You might consider switching to zile or mg if you don't need a lisp
> interpreter. You get the text editor and familiar key bindings without
> the extra 600+ MB of packages.
> 
> Also see <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id#16238>.
> 
> Jeff
> 

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