Installing emacs on red hat linux 5

Question

I am very new to Linux , we are trying to install Emacs editor on linux which is Red hat Linux5.

We setup VMWare and installed linux on that , i tried google a lot and couldn't find any tutorial on how to install emacs on Linux.

I am totally new to linux , can someone explain how to do the same.

It will be of great help thanks.

Solution

Did you try yum install emacs ?

Comments

[Admin]

wow that command works but it says the following error 192.168.0.5/pub/server/repodata/respond.xml timedout

[Admin]

and then it said trying other mirror , error: Cannot open /read repomd.xml file for repository:core ,

[Admin]

to give you more info , i am able to browse on my vm through firefox

[jjlin]

You have to run yum as root. Do you have root access?

[Admin]

yes i only installed that , i am running this command from root only , how can i check that?

[jjlin]

I don't really understand your response, but just try running sudo yum install emacs then.

[Admin]

@jjlin sure , let me try that , one more thing , how do i know that i am running as root , the command line shows root@emicroz

[Admin]

i did that with sudo command , still same error , after setting up repositories , it says fto timedout error

[Admin]

i am getting one more error , the system is not registered with RHN

[jjlin]

So is the system registered with RHN? I've heard you need an RHN subscription to even run RHEL, but I'm not familiar with the details, as I just use the RHEL-compatible CentOS.

[Admin]

finally installed Ubunto , this is nice and free

[Aaron Copley]

I believe you've confused yum/rpm.

[user1686]

Isn't the package manager supposed to automatically install all needed libraries when the emacs package is installed?

[cnst]

I dunno; it didn't happen in my case — I first tried doing yum install emacs as per the other answer, but that resulted in the error as above being generated when then trying to start the emacs. I had to install emacs-nox and also remove emacs in order for emacs to work.