Hello, > Note: I tried installation from MELPA first, but the version of ess > there insists on Emacs 25.1, and my available options are 26.1 or > 27.1. For info I have installed ess-version: 18.10.3snapshot [elpa: 20210307.735] both on linux and windows, from Melpa without any difficulties.
# emacs version on linux GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-09-01 # emacs version on windows GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-21 Best regards, Jeremie On Monday, 15 Mar 2021 at 11:29, Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help wrote: > I am trying to install ess-18.10.2 from the tarball into .emac.d on a > compute server for which I am not root. After extracting the tarball > into ~/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2, entering that directory and executing > make (all per the instructions in the ESS manual), I am getting > > $> make > cd lisp; make all > make[1]: Entering directory > `/scicomp/home-pure/wqh4/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2/lisp' > emacs -batch -no-site-file -no-init-file --directory . -f > batch-byte-compile julia-mode.el > Opening directory: Permission denied, > /apps/x86_64/emacs/27.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess > make[1]: *** [julia-mode.elc] Error 255 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/scicomp/home-pure/wqh4/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2/lisp' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > There is no .configure file. How doe one avoid the apparent need to > write to /apps/x86_64/emacs/27.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess in order to > install ess in .emacs.d? > > Note: I tried installation from MELPA first, but the version of ess > there insists on Emacs 25.1, and my available options are 26.1 or > 27.1. > > Thanks in advance for any tips. -- Jeremie Juste ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help