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Asked: 2011-06-24 09:21:04 +0800 CST

Where is the yum repository for emacs 23 for CentOS 5.5?

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I want to update my emacs on CentOS 5.5 to 23 but I can't find any rpms or yum repos that have it?

yum rpm emacs

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  1. Best Answer

    I spent quite a bit of time trying to build emacs on RHEL5.7, to no avail. Then, back to the google, and I found a repo with emacs23 RPMs for CentOS/RHEL 5.x.

    http://puias.princeton.edu/data/puias/unsupported/5.7/x86_64/

    To use it, use the bundled emacs21 to create a text file in /etc/yum.repos.d/puias-unsupported.repo .
    It should have these contents:

    [puias-unsupported]
name=PUIAS Unsupported $releasever
baseurl=http://puias.princeton.edu/data/puias/unsupported/5/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0

    Then, use it like this:

    sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=puias-unsupported install emacs23

    The RPMs are:

    If you install it this way, it will be placed into /usr/emacs23/ . It does not replace the existing emacs21.

    There is also a nox version of emacs23 in that repo. And a bunch of other stuff.

    Additionally, to make it work correctly and prevent warnings, I did the following:

    cd /usr/share/emacs/

    ln -s /usr/emacs23/share/emacs/23.2

    mkdir 23.2/leim

    mkdir -p /usr/libexec/emacs/23.2/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

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  2. You could grab the source RPMS from a recent Fedora (or RHEL6) release and then rebuild them yourself.

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  3. The latest version of Emacs on RHEL5 is 21. Essentially, RHEL/CentOS is aimed at the enterprise server market, which is far more concerned with stability than bleeding edge functionality.

    See this other post for a bit more explanation.

    --Christopher Karel

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