I'm a bit of a newbie...and started in again with unix duties as part of my new job.
I promptly set up a SUSE box..(is SUSE ok around here?)
I then remembered having used Emacs once, and liked it...

So, I downloaded the gz & after about 1/2 hour of getting "you are missing this frikin lib . now you're missing that frikin lib..." messages I gave up.

Either this linux installation is missing tons of libraries, (SUSE Pro 9.2) or there is still not a user friendly means of installing packages to date on a Linux machine...

However, being a self described newbie, I'm open to having gone about it wrongly..

I really would like to get emacs up & going...
Rich