Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile >> with X11 support. > > Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are > in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed
Ahh cool.. Thanks Alan. I was glad to see your name popping up in the responses recently too. Seems debian has some handy help for many situations. Maybe you'll know about this one: In redhat package manager there is a rpm --replacepkg command that will replace an installed package all over again. I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close. But barfs if files are missing or something. Even with `apt-get install --force-yes package' It barfs if you've scrubbed some of the files it expects to find. That --replacepkg thing in rpm is just for that kind of thing. I suspect apt-get or dpkg or a combination of them can do this too. Specifically the situation was that in shuffling stuff around after trying the emacs install from source, and installing emacs21 with apt-get I mistakenly removed some of the debian files in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp (I'd mixed in a bunch of my own stuff and lost track of what was from the install and what was mine). Rather than piece it togetther with file date and such, I thought to just reinstall emacs21. But it barfs on the missing files. with --reinstall or --force-yes. I got around it by apt-get remove emacs21 the apt-get install emacs21 but suspect there is a more direct way.
