Re: Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus

Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 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 unmaintained, very outdated and lacks documentation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

Ubuntu, like Debian, uses some munged site-lips/autoload system from what
I can gather and installing from source is not that straightforward. I
may be wrong and things have changed. Just a heads up on that one and
more info can be found in our friend Google.

The emacs (22.2.1) with Debian Lenny works fine "out of the box".