Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux
Revision as of 16:34, 10 October 2021 by JorgePeixoto (talk | contribs) (Updated Debian and mentioned GNU Guix)
Check if your distribution already provides an Emacs version of interest to you.
If you are interested in daily builds or latest binaries, try installing GNU Guix, building from source or try one of the following unofficial repositories for your distribution.
Debian (bullseye)
Debian bullseye is the current stable release as of 2021-10-10.
Emacs 27.1
$ 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The following PPA is no longer maintained and currently features Emacs 24.3.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.