hi,
I use fedora. I just installed emacs by using this command.
yum install emacs.It did install(updated).

But when i try whereis emacs i get only this,
emacs: /usr/share/emacs

when i try emacs in command prompt it didn't open.

Pls help.

Thanks.

Try:
updatedb
locate emacsen

nothing displayed

Fedora 11 : ' which emacs ' , the reply is : /usr/bin/emacs

rpm -ql emacs
/usr/bin/emacs-23.1
/usr/libexec/emacs
/usr/libexec/emacs/23.1
.
.

The rpm / yum install is supposed to create the link /usr/bin/emacs :
So I guess you will have to give it another try with yum or :
1) ' su '
2 ) :
Or create a link ' emacs ' yourself.
.....

whereis emacs returns the following.
emacs: /usr/share/emacs


which emacs returns the following
/usr/bin/which: no emacs in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/raju/bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/opt/real/RealPlayer)

*
OK, did you follow one of the advices in post # 4
to get the link created ? ?

Else you can do : open the terminal window and ...
1) cd /usr/bin/
2) su <enter-your-password>
3) ln -s emacs-23.1 emacs
.....

As in #4 i did this,
ls -l /usr/bin/emacs*

It returns nothing.

when,
rpm -ql emacs
package emacs is not installed.

I installed it with yum.

The /usr/share/emacs folder contains another folder named site-lisp and it contains some .el files and .elc files.

Hope this helps to find the problem.

It seems that it was not installed. Please try to do it again, and post exactly what you did and what was reported by yum.

Evo2.

I installed it again. Still emacs doesn't start.

yum install emacs
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package emacs.i386 1:22.3-5.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: emacs-common = 1:22.3-5.fc10 for package: emacs
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi for package: emacs
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-fonts-misc for package: emacs
--> Running transaction check
---> Package emacs-common.i386 1:22.3-5.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
emacs i386 1:22.3-5.fc10 updates 2.0 M
Installing for dependencies:
emacs-common i386 1:22.3-5.fc10 updates 19 M
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi noarch 7.2-6.fc9 fedora 928 k
xorg-x11-fonts-misc noarch 7.2-6.fc9 fedora 5.9 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 4 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 28 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/4): xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch.r | 928 kB 00:07
(2/4): emacs-22.3-5.fc10.i386.rpm | 2.0 MB 00:22
(3/4): xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-6.fc9.noarch.rpm | 5.9 MB 01:01
(4/4): emacs-common-22.3-5.fc10.i386.rpm | 19 MB 03:11
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 101 kB/s | 28 MB 04:43
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi 1/4
Installing : xorg-x11-fonts-misc 2/4
Installing : emacs-common 3/4
Installing : emacs 4/4

Installed:
emacs.i386 1:22.3-5.fc10

Dependency Installed:
emacs-common.i386 1:22.3-5.fc10 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9

Complete!
[root@localhost site-lisp]# emacs
bash: emacs: command not found

Ok, it seems to have installed without error. Can you please post the output of:

rpm -ql emacs

and

echo $PATH

Evo2.

seems to be nearing solution.

rpm -ql emacs returns,

/usr/bin/emacs-22.3
/usr/libexec/emacs
/usr/libexec/emacs/22.3
/usr/libexec/emacs/22.3/i386-redhat-linux-gnu
/usr/share/applications/emacs.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/emacs.png

Before, I had a link like this. Here emacs-23.1 is not available. How to change it to emacs-22.3

ls -l /usr/bin/emacs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-11-04 09:53 /usr/bin/emacs -> emacs-23.1

Excellent. So it really is installed now. So you can run it with the comand: emacs-22.3

Best thing to do though would be to follow the instructions in post #4 and run update-alternatives.

Evo2.

echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/raja/bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/opt/real/RealPlayer

rm /usr/bin/emacs
ln -s /usr/bin/emacs-22.3 /usr/bin/emacs

Evo2.