how to install emacs (so many dependencies!)

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:35 -0500, Thomas B. Walter wrote:
> I did a bare bones install of RHEL4v4 and now have a request for emacs on 
> the machine. Each rpm I attempt to install has dependencies and they have 
> dependencies, etc......... a nightmare.
> 
> Is there a way to install emacs from the RHEL install or SRPMS that is 
> more straightforward? Or another way?

Many others have said "use yum", but that's not part of the RHEL
distribution (sorry gang...yum only comes on CentOS or Fedora).
However, "up2date -i emacs" should do the trick if you're registered
with up2date.

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