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Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
From: |
Rodolfo Medina |
Subject: |
Re: How to uninstall Emacs? |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:59:24 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Rodolfo Medina writes:
>> > Bob Proulx writes:
>> > > Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is
>> > > better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend
>> > > upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In
>> > > Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically
>> > > upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is
>> > > that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available.
>> >
>> > To do so, I should now:
>> >
>> > # aptitude purge emacs24
>> > # aptitude install emacs
>>
>> I did so, and seems all right.
>
> The end result is okay but it wastefully removes emacs24 and then
> immediately installs it again. 'emacs24' is a dependency of the
> current 'emacs'. Why remove what will be immediately re-installed?
Maybe it was enough simply
# aptitude install emacs
. The reason to install `emacs' package having emacs24 already installed is
what you said above:
>> > > Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is
>> > > better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend
>> > > upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In
>> > > Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically
>> > > upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is
>> > > that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available.
> See this for a more full answer and description:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00174.html
>
> Additionally this too:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00178.html
Yes, it's our present thread.
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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