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Add warning about segmentation fault in Ubuntu (akermu#185 and akermu…
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Sbozzolo committed Feb 7, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ Using `vterm` on Ubuntu requires additional steps. The latest LTS version
(18.04) ships with a version of CMake that is too old for `vterm` and GNU
Emacs is not compiled with support for dynamical module loading.

It is possible to install GNU Emacs with module support from Kevin Kelley's PPA
It is possible to install GNU Emacs with module support from Kevin Kelley's PPA.
The binary in Ubuntu Emacs Lisp PPA is currently broken and leads to segmentation faults
(see [#185](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/185#issuecomment-562237077)).
In case Emacs is already on the system, you need to purge it before proceeding
with the following commands.
```sh
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In some cases, `/bin/sh` needs to be relinked to `/bin/bash` for the compilation
to work (see,
https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/216#issuecomment-575934593).
[#216](https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/216#issuecomment-575934593)).

Pull requests are welcome to improve support for Ubuntu (e.g., simplyfing the
installation).
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