[ESS] Installing ESS on CentOS?

[David Scott]

  On 27/10/10 22:53, Andrei Jirnyi wrote:
> RHEL5 also has 21.4 btw; SUSE EL seems to have 22.3 but I have hard time
> imagining the system admin switching the OS to accomodate a user request for
> a newer emacs version :)
>
> --aj
>
I am using CentOS as well. It ships with very old versions all round as 
others have said. I have sudo access but not root access and I installed 
Emacs 23.2.1 myself. I just hunted round for an rpm (maybe even got that 
from Emacs itself), hunted around for instructions on installing an rpm 
(yes I am pretty clueless on this stuff not to know how to install an 
rpm), and away it went. For ESS just followed the instructions, ditto 
for AUCTeX.

The main problem for me has been the myriad of RedHat and related linux 
versions. I was told to take Fedora 13 rpm's to install on CentOS, which 
seems to basically work. No knowledge of Python however---I don't use it.

David



> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Martin Maechler<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> wrote:
>>>>>>> "SpG" == Spencer Graves<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
>>>>>>>      on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:47:48 -0700 writes:
>>     SpG>         What procedure do you suggest to install ESS in
>>     SpG>  CentOS 5.5, which includes Emacs 21.4.1?
>>
>> Change the OS.
>> An OS that nowadays ships Emacs 21.x would be unacceptible for me..
>>
>> Is it really not possible to convince "whoever" to use a newer
>> OS version?
>>
>> Martin
>>
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