By using the advices of James W. (see fedora-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 253), I succeded to install xemacs from the DVD of the Fedora Core 2 by using the commands Go into a terminal as root: mount /mnt/cdrom (assuming that's your DVD drive) cd /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS rpm -Uvh Canna-libs-3.7p1-6.i386.rpm xemacs-sumo-20040202-4.noarch.rpm \ xemacs-common-21.4.15-5.i386.rpm xemacs-21.4.15-5.i386.rpm \ apel-xemacs-10.6-2.noarch.rpm I installed xemacs from the directory /root with the previous rpm commands. Then, everything is correct with xemacs if I go into a terminal as root. But, if I open a file from the /home/dellache directory with xemacs as a user being not the root, xemacs opens the file but says that : (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading /home/dellache/.xemacs/init.el: Symbol's function definition is void: global-font-lock-mode To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause of the error in your initialization file and remove it. Use the `-debug-init' option to XEmacs to view a complete error backtrace. Another information : there is no .xemacs and .emacs directory in the /root (and in the /home/dellache) directories : then, it seems impossible to find any file init.el to put into any .xemacs directory in the /home/dellache directory ! Thank you to help me !!! Stéph Vous manquez d?espace pour stocker vos mails ? Yahoo! Mail vous offre GRATUITEMENT 100 Mo ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.benefits.yahoo.com/ Le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger est arrivé ! Découvrez toutes les nouveautés pour dialoguer instantanément avec vos amis. A télécharger gratuitement sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com