raja_tlr

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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.

AwesomeMachine

Try:
updatedb
locate emacsen

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raja_tlr

nothing displayed

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knudfl

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.
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raja_tlr

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)

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knudfl

*
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
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raja_tlr

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.

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evo2

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.

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raja_tlr

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

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evo2

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

rpm -ql emacs

and

echo $PATH

Evo2.

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raja_tlr

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

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raja_tlr

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

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evo2

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.

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raja_tlr

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

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evo2

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

Evo2.

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