How do I know if Emacs is installed on my system

[jdvilla]

I am maintaining a server which is running Red Hat 7.2 (or something like that).

Well, I have used vi to edit my files but someone has just asked about emacs.

I did a locate for emacs and this is what I found:

/usr/share/emacs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el


I then did a :

rpm -q emacs

the it retuned nothing.

My question is:

Is emacs installed on my server (using the above info) and if so how do I start it.

we tried emacs filename but we just get

bash: emacs: command not found

?????

I'm ready to install the rpm if anything.

[Exodus2001]

If there is not a executable file called emacs in usr/bin it is not installed correctly or it's not installed at all. The RPM or tar.gz file should have put it there if it was.

[jdvilla]

Since I don't know anything about emacs, please excuse my ignorance...

I tried installing the rpm but received this...


libICE.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libSM.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libX11.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libXaw3d.so.7 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libXext.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libXmu.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libXpm.so.4 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libXt.so.6 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libpng12.so.0 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libtiff.so.3 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
libungif.so.4 is needed by emacs-21.3-3
perl(strict) is needed by emacs-21.3-3
perl(vars) is needed by emacs-21.3-3
gettext < 0.10.40 conflicts with emacs-21.3-3

Looking at some of these, they remind of X. Is emacs only ran using an X system?

This is the root of my question:

A friend of mine who now has access to a server I run wishes to use emacs (rather than vi) to edit some files. This server does not have X installed on it. and he uses Mac OS X. Can emacs be run like vi? For example, from a terminal?

[Exodus2001]

It looks like your trying to install the latest emacs on Red Hat 7.2. The problem is the Libs in that version are too old to run the current version of emacs.

It will run in the terminal without the x-server running. I always use emacs to fix problems if X won't start.

Try this one and see what happens:

http://altruistic.lbl.gov/repositories/redhat-7.2-i386/RPMS/emacs-20.7-41.i386.rpm

[Atealtha]

dont use locate, use whereis

whereis emacs

it shows the bin file, and man pages. they dont list every file listed under the emacs directory, and all those probs with locate.

[jdvilla]

Interesting...

I installed the rpm and do a locate, and it still will not show me all the locations for it. But whereis will.

ok, this is my next dilemna...

I type emac<tab>
and I get

emacsclient?

What is this...

Just for giggles I tried

emacsclient test.php

and get

emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?


No I haven't started the server, how would I do this?

**Don't worry I just help getting it started, I won't continue posting questions on how to use it...

[Atealtha]

Originally posted by jdvilla
Interesting...

I installed the rpm and do a locate, and it still will not show me all the locations for it. But whereis will.

type

updatedb

in terminal first, then do locate.

[jdvilla]

Ok, thanks... that worked....

[sarah31]

the "which" command also works well to locate binaries
(~/Webdev) %which emacs
/usr/bin/emacs

[bskahan]

if your box is running really sluggish and complainging alot, you prbably have a bad case of emacs

/me ducks