Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux
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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 29.3 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
# As root (doas, sudo or su)
apt-get install emacs
Emacs Daily
Read the disclaimer on the PPA description
# As root (doas, sudo or su)
apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa
apt-get install emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-el
Gentoo
Arch Linux
Emacs 29.4
# As root (doas, sudo or su)
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 29.4
Available since at least Fedora 39.
# As root (with doas, sudo or su)
dnf install emacs
openSUSE
Emacs 27.2 (openSUSE Leap 15.6)
# As root (with doas, sudo or su)
zypper install emacs
Emacs 29.4 (openSUSE Tumbleweed)
Recent Emacs is available on openSUSE Tumbleweed (tested rolling release distribution) and possibly also on openSUSE Leap from Factory repo.
# As root (with doas, sudo or su)
zypper install emacs