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| author | Gabriele Bozzola <sbozzolator@gmail.com> | 2020-01-30 18:00:29 -0700 |
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| committer | jixiuf <jixiuf@qq.com> | 2020-01-31 12:42:06 +0800 |
| commit | 296ce8c0dbd9a317ee68023a357798f91552af4e (patch) | |
| tree | 849ec3af3a05db42f3da458bc251df032df93e61 /README.md | |
| parent | a970b4f4722d23c09afa7b60d2e0a3060960472a (diff) | |
Improve wording for Ubuntu subsection in readme
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ git clone https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm.git Before installing emacs-libvterm, you need to make sure you have installed - 1. Emacs with [module + 1. GNU Emacs (>= 25.1) with [module support](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Dynamic-Modules.html). You can check that, by verifying that `module-file-suffix` is not `nil`. - 2. cmake (>=3.11) + 2. cmake (>= 3.11) 3. libtool-bin (related issues: [#66](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/66) [#85](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/85#issuecomment-491845136)) @@ -73,25 +73,32 @@ lines to your `init.el`: ) ``` -## Under Ubuntu +## vterm and Ubuntu -To install emacs with module support under Ubuntu, purge your installed emacs installation and reinstall emacs from Kevin Kelley's PPA +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 +In case Emacs is already on the system, you need to purge it before proceeding +with the following commands. ```sh sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs sudo apt update sudo apt-get install emacs26 ``` -Make sure you have libtools and CMake (> 3.11) installed. Libtools can be installed via `apt-get` and the newest CMake version via linuxbrew. - +A way to install a recent version of CMake (>= 3.11) is with linuxbrew. ```sh brew install cmake -sudo apt-get install libtool ``` -In some cases `/bin/sh` needs to be relinked to `/bin/bash` for the compile to work (https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/216#issuecomment-575934593). +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). +Pull requests are welcome to improve support for Ubuntu (e.g., simplyfing the +installation). # Debugging and testing |