(OT) trying to install emacs

[Dan Murphy]

Well I went to the slackware site and found a slackware native version in 
the extra folder, so I think I'll try installing that instead.


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Sean McMahon wrote:

> If the other packages are installed, but they aren't rpms, then rpm has no way
> of knowing about them.  If you know that you do indeed have them, you could try
> removing what you have, and installing the rpms with some tool that will manage
> dependencies for your distrobution, thereby downloading and installing the
> appropriate packages.  Or, you can install the rpm with the --nodeps option and
> keep what you have.  Make sure you have indeed met the dependencies of course
> before installing with --nodeps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Murphy" <danmint at verizon.net>
> To: "Speakup mailing list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:00 PM
> Subject: (OT) trying to install emacs
>
>
>> Hi all.  I have recently tried to install the current version of emacs,
>> and I downloaded the rpm package and I'm trying to use slackware's rpm
>> tool and I get the following error.
>>
>> /home/mweebyrpm -i emacspeak-22.0-1.i386.rpm
>> warning: emacspeak-22.0-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8a863ea2
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>   emacs is needed by emacspeak-22.0-1
>>   tcl is needed by emacspeak-22.0-1
>>   tclx is needed by emacspeak-22.0-1
>>   /bin/sh is needed by emacspeak-22.0-1
>> /home/mweeby
>> what I don't understand is why it says that tcl, tclx emacs, and the other
>> packages are needed when I have checked that they are installed.
>> this is the first time I've used rpm, but I need a little help with this.
>> thanks.
>>
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