Re: Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus

On 2008-06-29 00:20 +0200, Kenneth Jacker wrote:

> I decided to upgrade my office machine to the newest Ubuntu (8.04/Hardy).
>
> Unfortunately, 'gnus' failed to work from the very start (problems
> with 'gnus-load', ...).

The Gnus in Ubuntu is not byte-compiled for the emacs22 package, so
Emacs will use the one that comes with Emacs which may lack some
feature that you want in your .gnus.el.  See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnus/+bug/133621.

> Does anyone have Gnus running with Emacs22 on Ubuntu?
>
> I removed Emacs22 and installed Emacs21 and Gnus is usable (it is what
> I'm using now to post this article), but doesn't seem quite right".

Forget about the Gnus that comes with Ubuntu, it is completely
unmaintained, very outdated and lacks documentation
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnus/+bug/227925).

See http://gnus.org/distribution.html how to get a newer version.

Sven