Those with little time, cheap connections and plenty of disk space can
install all packages at once using the sumo tarballs.
-Download the files
+Download the file
-xemacs-sumo-<date>.tar.gz if you have a latin-1 XEmacs.
+xemacs-sumo-<date>.tar.gz
-or
+For an XEmacs compiled with Mule you also need
-xemacs-mule-sumo-<date>.tar.gz if you have a MULE XEmacs.
+xemacs-mule-sumo-<date>.tar.gz
-N.B. There are called 'Sumo Tarballs' for good reason. They are
-currently 15MB and 23MB (gzipped) respectively.
+N.B. They are called 'Sumo Tarballs' for good reason. They are
+currently about 15MB and 2.3MB (gzipped) respectively.
Install them by
installing easier. It will notice if new packages or versions are
available and will fetch them from the ftp site.
-Unfortunately this requires that a few packages are alreadyin place.
+Unfortunately this requires that a few packages are already in place.
You will have to install them by hand as above or use a SUMO tarball.
This requirement will hopefully go away in the future. The packages
you need are:
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In addition to the system wide packages, each user can have his own
-packages installed in "./xemacs" (Note that this will most likely
-change to "./xemacs/packages" in the near future). If you want to
+packages installed in "~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages". If you want to
install packages there using the interactive tools, you need to set
-'pui-package-install-dest-dir' to "/xemacs"
+'pui-package-install-dest-dir' to "~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages"
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