In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zachary DeAquila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the correct way to get emacs (for instance) to install without X
> support?
> I don't have or run X on this machine since I'm almost *never* local to it.
>
> dpkg --install --ignore-depends="xlibraries" ?
>
> This got it to install but upon run I get the message:
>
> emacs: can't find library 'libXaw.so.6'
>
> which means it somehow wants to depend on them still. So whaddo I do?
You must install the xlib package. Emacs is dynamically linked
against the X libraries, so it needs these libraries even if you don't
use the X support.
This limitation may go away (when we use the ELF binary format), but
currently there is no way around it.
Sven
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