[ESS] Installing ESS on CentOS?

[spencerg]

In this case, the system admin duties are split between a friend, who is 
unavailable until this weekend, and me, who not sufficiently unixed to 
feel comfortable doing this.  He suggested CentOS, because I didn't want 
to mess with Linux problems.  He prefers Fedora, which we may migrate to 
after he returns.  (I also need Python 2.7.  CentOS has so many things 
that use Python 2.4.3 that the probability is very high that something 
will break if I upgrade to 2.7.)


       Thanks,
       Spencer


On 10/27/2010 2:53 AM, Andrei Jirnyi wrote:
> RHEL5 also has 21.4 btw; SUSE EL seems to have 22.3 but I have hard time
> imagining the system admin switching the OS to accomodate a user request for
> a newer emacs version :)
>
> --aj
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Martin Maechler<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> wrote:
>>>>>>> "SpG" == Spencer Graves<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
>>>>>>>      on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:47:48 -0700 writes:
>>     SpG>         What procedure do you suggest to install ESS in
>>     SpG>  CentOS 5.5, which includes Emacs 21.4.1?
>>
>> Change the OS.
>> An OS that nowadays ships Emacs 21.x would be unacceptible for me..
>>
>> Is it really not possible to convince "whoever" to use a newer
>> OS version?
>>
>> Martin
>>
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