2.4 Installing emacs-w3m

See the official page http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ for instructions on how to get the latest emacs-w3m. Is everything ready? Now, let’s begin.

In order to install emacs-w3m on non-UNIX-like systems (or any system lacking the ability to execute the ‘configure’ script or has no ‘make’ command), skip this section and go to the next section See section Installing on non-UNIX-like systems.

1. First, extract a tarball of the emacs-w3m distribution and enter the top directory as follows:

   % tar zxf emacs-w3m-No value for VERSION.tar.gz % cd emacs-w3m-No value for VERSION

   If you’ve checked out emacs-w3m from CVS, you have to run ‘autoconf’ with no argument to generate the ‘configure’ script.

2. Run the ‘configure’ script.

   % ./configure

   Important notice to Gnus users:

   If multiple versions of Gnus are installed on your system (it is likely that there are the released version and the development version of Gnus), make sure that the load-path contains the directory where the version you use is installed (check for the ‘gnus.elc’ file). You can ensure that with the ‘--with-addpath’ option as follows:

   % ./configure --with-addpath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus

   If you’ve installed APEL, FLIM or something in

   non-standard directories other than the default load-path, you must specify them using the ‘--with-addpath’ option as follows (you may also include the Gnus directory in it separated with ‘:’):

   % ./configure --with-addpath=/opt/share/apel:/opt/share/flim

   By default, the installer (i.e. ‘make install’) will compress the Lisp source files and info files by gzip in the installation directories. If you don’t want those files to be compressed, use the configure option ‘--without-compress-install’.

3. Just run ‘make’ and ‘make install’. See also the next step if you are using XEmacs.

   % make % make install

   All Lisp and info files will be installed in the appropriate directories. Now, how do you know what files will go where? To know it beforehand, use this:

   % make what-where

   If you are using Emacs or XEmacs capable of displaying images, you had better install icon image files. To do this:

   % make install-icons

   or

   % make install-icons30

   The later is for using the slightly larger icon images.

4. You can also install emacs-w3m as an XEmacs package using ‘make install-package’ instead of ‘make install’ as follows:

   % make % make install-package

   In this case, you don’t have to execute ‘make install-icons’ nor ‘make install-icons30’.

   If you need to specify the package directory, there are two ways to do that:

   • Use the ‘configure’ option ‘--with-packagedir=’. For example:

     % ./configure --with-packagedir=/opt/xemacs/xemacs-packages % make what-where % make % make install-package

   • Use the ‘PACKAGEDIR’ variable. For example:

     % ./configure % make what-where PACKAGEDIR=/opt/xemacs/xemacs-packages % make % make install-package PACKAGEDIR=/opt/xemacs/xemacs-packages

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