Installing Emacs 24.1

I was excited to see the announcement that Emacs 24.1 has been released.  I wanted to install and try. There were a few glitches that I faced during the installation. I thought it might be useful for someone who might be hitting the same blocks.

Once I downloaded the source code and verified the signature, I unzipped the Emacs 24.1 source code. The first "configure" run gave the following error:
configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
were found.  You should install the relevant development files for X
and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+, Lesstif or Motif.  Also make
sure you have development files for image handling, i.e.
tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm.
If you are sure you want Emacs compiled without X window support, pass
  --without-x
to configure.
To address this error I had to do the following:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libtiff4-dev libgif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev 
Then when I attempted to run configure again, I got the following error:
configure: error: The required function `tputs' was not found in any library.
These libraries were tried: libncurses, libterminfo, libtermcap, libcurses.
Please try installing whichever of these libraries is most appropriate
for your system, together with its header files.
For example, a libncurses-dev(el) or similar package.
To resolve this error I had to do the following:
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev
Thats it. The installation was smooth. Here is the summary of commands you need to run:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libtiff4-dev libgif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-dev
# You can skip this step if you don't want to verify the signature.
gpg --verify emacs-24.1.tar.bz2.sig emacs-24.1.tar.bz2
tar xvfj emacs-24.1.tar.bz2
cd emacs-24.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

Comments

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Anonymous said…
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Yan Pak said…
Thank you! Your stuff helped me
Unknown said…
Thanks for the information! I appreciate the help. :-)

-Aashish
Anonymous said…
This is helpful. It would be even more helpful if you explain how you can quickly determine which libraries you install. For example, how did you determine you should write libjpeg62-dev, as opposed to something like libjpeg-dev?

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