FAQ

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 File : FAQ.txt 
 Creation:  13 Jan 2010
 Time-stamp: <Thu 2010-01-14 13:35 svarrette>

 Copyright (c) 2010 Sebastien Varrette <Sebastien.Varrette@uni.lu>
               http://varrette.gforge.uni.lu
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Q: I just retrieved your configuration and follow the instruction to setup the
   .emacs.d directory and the .emacs file yet when I launch emacs, I get the
   message "An error has occurred while loading `/path/to/.emacs':  

   File error: Cannot open load file, XXX" 

A: 
This means that XXX is not installed on your system. 

* On Debian/Ubuntu: apt-cache search XXX then install the appropriate package
  via apt-get install 
* On Mac Os X, with Carbon Emacs: either use Help / Carbon Emacs Package /
  Net-install / or make a manual installation (put the files in
  ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/)  

Special note for CEDET and ECB: the packaged version are a little old (CEDET
v1.0pre4 and ECB 2.32 as I speak) so it appeared better to install the latest
one (CEDET 1.0pre6 that directly include eassist and ECB 2.40). 
    - CEDET: 
      * Get the latest version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cedet/files/
      * Let's assume it's cedet-1.0pre6.tar.gz (the one I checked)
      * uncompress in the correct directory: 
            cd ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp
            tar xvzf /path/to/cedet-1.0pre6.tar.gz
            ln -s cedet-1.0pre6 cedet
            
      * it you're running Ubuntu 9.10, you'll need to apply the patch provided
        on http://bugs.gentoo.org/280984 and available on 
        http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-emacs/cedet/files/cedet-1.0_pre6-fix-eieio-comp.patch?view=markup
            patch -p0 < pathfile

      * compile cedet
            cd cedet
            make
      
      that's all!  (note that the path to ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/cedet/common is
      already loaded in init.el)

   - ECB: you have no choice but to manually install ECB from http://ecb.sourceforge.net/
	  Assuming you retrieved ecb-x.yy.tar.gz:

	cd ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp
	tar xvzf /path/to/ecb-x.yy.tar.gz 
	ln -s ecb-x.yy ecb
	



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