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| author | Gabriele Bozzola <sbozzolator@gmail.com> | 2020-02-07 10:35:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Gabriele Bozzola <sbozzolator@gmail.com> | 2020-02-07 10:35:27 -0700 |
| commit | c55370ac39611fbfd6acfcc0f1efd551af7c8d14 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c253393a643f3ceb5de1b7e4dff93ece681be0e | |
| parent | af5cb81caf19077b701681df75ec7984a44ae7c8 (diff) | |
Add warning about segmentation fault in Ubuntu (#185 and #232)
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ Using `vterm` on Ubuntu requires additional steps. The latest LTS version (18.04) ships with a version of CMake that is too old for `vterm` and GNU Emacs is not compiled with support for dynamical module loading. -It is possible to install GNU Emacs with module support from Kevin Kelley's PPA +It is possible to install GNU Emacs with module support from Kevin Kelley's PPA. +The binary in Ubuntu Emacs Lisp PPA is currently broken and leads to segmentation faults +(see [#185](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/185#issuecomment-562237077)). In case Emacs is already on the system, you need to purge it before proceeding with the following commands. ```sh @@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ brew install cmake In some cases, `/bin/sh` needs to be relinked to `/bin/bash` for the compilation to work (see, -https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/216#issuecomment-575934593). +[#216](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/216#issuecomment-575934593)). Pull requests are welcome to improve support for Ubuntu (e.g., simplyfing the installation). |