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GNU Info (bbdb.info)General PrerequisitesGeneral Prerequisites --------------------- Various parts of the BBDB require extra packages to be available that are not part of the BBDB distribution. Please note that with one exception no extra packages (beyond those which ship with both GNU Emacs and XEmacs) are required for the use of BBDB core functionality.(1) This one exception applies to XEmacs 20.5 users - the `xemacs-base' package must be installed for the correct operation of the core BBDB functionality. The table below lists the requirements of the various portions of the BBDB. Please note that the absence of any of the below optional packages will not affect core BBDB functionality. BBDB file Package needed GNU 19.34 GNU 20.2 XEmacs XEmacs >=20.4 20.5 `bbdb-ftp' EFS or B B B P Ange-FTP `bbdb-gnus' Gnus[1] B B B P `bbdb-mhe' MH-E B B B P `bbdb-reportmail' Reportmail B P[2] `bbdb-sc' Supercite B B P `bbdb-srv' `gnuserv' and B B `itimer' `bbdb-vm' VM[4] B P `bbdb-w3' `browse-url' B B B P[3] NOTES: 1. The old GNUS mail/newsreader should still work. Please keep in mind that you have a relatively recent Emacs (GNU 19.34 or later, XEmacs 19.15 or later), you are probably using Gnus. 2. As of this writing, Reportmail is available as part of the `edit-utils' package. 3. As of this writing, `browse-url' is available as part of the `mail-lib' package. 4. The source release of VM is currently required due to the use of macros from the VM codebase in BBDB's VM integration. Please also note that the XEmacs package locations are as of this writing. As the XEmacs 20.5 package system is still in development, the locations may change without warning. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) "Core Functionality" is defined as the parts of the BBDB used to implement basic record creation (`M-x bbdb-create') and searching (`M-x bbdb'). automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |