Hello!
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:21:17 +0100, Brian Jones wrote:
Hello, I am trying to download and install the latest version of SLIME into emacs. The operating system I am running is Ubuntu Linux.
As you're using Ubuntu, you could grab the latest SLIME/Emacs packages, using your favorite package manager.
As I never used Ubuntu, I searched on Google and found that SLIME seems to be present only on edgy and feisty [1]. Moreover, the version is dated back to 20060925, so it's actually not the real latest upstream version [2].
My second question deals with the installation process. As I've said before I am running Ubuntu Linux and I was wondering how I would find the path to my lisp system and the path to my slime directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In case of packaged SLIME/Emacs, you just need to set the Emacs `inferior-lisp-program' variable to your preferred Common Lisp implementation (in case you have more than one installed, otherwise the unique one is automatically chosen). Then starting SLIME on Emacs with M-x slime will do the rest.
Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
Footnotes: [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=slime&sea... [2] this is mainly because Debian is near a release and thus packages aren't updated as frequent as during a normal development cycle (except to solve release critical bugs)