<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:59 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 02/25/2009 07:05 PM, David Karr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:15 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: > >> On 02/25/2009 03:42 PM, David Karr wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Scott Abbey <<a href="mailto:scott@eotr.net">scott@eotr.net</a>> wrote: >> >> >> > The repo URI was "<a href="http://http.us.debian.org/debian" target="_blank">http://http.us.debian.org/debian</a>". >> >> >> >> Be very careful adding repos to your system. Debian's repos are *not* >> >> compatible with Ubuntu, generally speaking. Key libraries are at >> >> different versions and can cause major havoc to an Ubuntu system. It >> >> appears you've lucked out this time, but for future reference, don't >> >> just add any old repo to your sources. My personal suggestion, for >> >> simplicity's sake, is to stick to the official Ubuntu repos and the >> >> occasional <a href="http://launchpad.net" target="_blank">launchpad.net</a> PPA. If you absolutely must have a package >> >> that can't be installed from one of those two, you can try downloading >> >> *just the package* from Debian. >> >> >> > >> > In this case, I was only using it to install an Emacs lisp package. In >> the >> > future, if I have to do that again, I'll enable the repo, install just >> that >> > package, and disable the repo. If it's for anything else, I'll keep it >> away >> > from update manager. >> >> Have you checked to see if perhaps the package is already available? >> >> <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=emacs" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=emacs</a> >> >> Also, you can try: >> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=packages.ubuntu+%2Bemacs" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=packages.ubuntu+%2Bemacs</a> >> which leads to a PPA for Emacs Lisp: </div></div>>> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa</a><<a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa</a>> <div class="Ih2E3d">>> >> Not sure if those are helpful, but if you post the name of the debian >> package here then someone is likely to be able to assist. >> > > Those are useful resources, but the package I installed, "js2-mode", wasn't > in any of those lists, that I could see. I don't remember the exact name of > the debian package, but it was probably just "js2-mode". > > </div>It's scheduled for Jaunty: <<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=js2-mode" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=js2-mode</a>> <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/js2-mode" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/js2-mode</a> I just downloaded the deb: <<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/js2-mode/download" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/js2-mode/download</a>> and installed the deb on Hardy by double-clicking via Nautilus and using the package installer. The package installer checked to ensure that all dependencies are met before installing, so I'm sure that you can do the same on Intrepid. </blockquote></div> Excellent. Another important link to save. Thanks for following through with that (and the other things you've been helping me with).