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Check if your distribution already provides an Emacs version of interest to you.  
 
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If you are interested in daily builds or latest binaries, try installing GNU Guix, building from [https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs source] or try one of the following unofficial repositories for your distribution.
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For a more recent build, try installing GNU Guix, Distrobox, building from [https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git source] or one of the following unofficial repositories for your distribution.
  
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= Debian (bullseye) =
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= Debian (bookworm) =
  
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Debian bullseye is the current stable release as of 2021-10-10.
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Debian bookworm is (as of 2024-10-08) Debian stable, released on 2023-06-10.
  
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== Emacs 27.1 ==
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== Emacs 29.4 (on [https://backports.debian.org/ bookworm-backports]) ==
  
 
<source lang="bash">
 
<source lang="bash">
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$ sudo apt install emacs
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# As root (su, doas or sudo)
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apt install emacs
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</source>
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== Emacs 28.2 ==
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<source lang="bash">
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# As root (su, doas or sudo)
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apt install emacs
 
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Revision as of 10:28, 8 October 2024

Check if your distribution already provides an Emacs version of interest to you.

For a more recent build, try installing GNU Guix, Distrobox, building from source or one of the following unofficial repositories for your distribution.

Debian (bookworm)

Debian bookworm is (as of 2024-10-08) Debian stable, released on 2023-06-10.

Emacs 29.4 (on bookworm-backports)

# As root (su, doas or sudo)
apt install emacs

Emacs 28.2

# As root (su, doas or sudo)
apt install emacs


Ubuntu

Emacs 23

$ sudo apt-get install emacs

Emacs 24

The following PPA is no longer maintained and currently features Emacs 24.3. 

	
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cassou/emacs

$ sudo apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el emacs24-common-non-dfsg

Emacs 25

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:adrozdoff/emacs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install emacs25

Emacs Daily

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa

$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-el

Gentoo

See Emacs on Gentoo page.

Arch Linux

Emacs 24

$ sudo pacman -S emacs

Emacs-git

Compile and Install bleeding edge using AUR: 

$ yaourt -S emacs-git

Slackware

Compile and Install using emacs.SlackBuild (unofficial).

Fedora

Emacs 23

Available up to Fedora 16 

$ sudo yum install emacs

Emacs 24

Available from Fedora 17+ 

$ sudo yum install emacs

SUSE

Emacs 23

Available in 12.1 and 12.2. Before that? not sure. 

$ sudo zypper install emacs

Emacs 24

Not available till 12.2, but available from Factory repo. Add factory repo and then, 

$ sudo zypper install emacs

Mandriva

No pre-built packages.

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