Trouble installing emacs 26.3 Red Hat

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Followed these steps:

Downloaded emacs-26.3.tar.gz, drop it in a subdir of my home dir
cd to there
tar -xvf emacs-26.1.tar.xz
Seems happy a bunch of files appear
cd emacs-26.3
./configure --prefix=/home/<my_home_dir>/.local/share/emacs --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-x-toolkit=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gnutls=no

Config errors saying
The required function 'tputs' was not found in any library and it lists the 5 libs it tried.

libtinfo libnurses libterminfo libcurses libtermcap

ran >sudo apt install for those five and it errors saying
unable to locate package.

It looks like sudo can't find them.

I don't have public internet on the machine I am installing on

Are you sure configure ran happily? After I run configure, the Makefile has been created — dalanicolai
– dalanicolai, Commented Feb 6, 2024 at 17:30
sudo is not the thing that can't find the packages, that would be apt. The sudo command is only there to run apt with root privileges. — Philippe Carphin
– Philippe Carphin, Commented Mar 4 at 4:01

Mikef · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-06 21:13:43Z

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It seems like the problem was missing ncurses.
Ran sudo apt install ncurses-dev and config runs well enough to generate a make file.

I still needed the --with-xxx=no options for all of those graphics packages as part of running configure.

Then was able to run make and have emacs 26.3 up now

answered Feb 6, 2024 at 18:00

Mikef

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