Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux
Check if your distribution already provides an Emacs version of interest to you.
If you are interested in daily builds or latest binaries, try building from source or try one of the following unofficial repositories based on your distribution.
Debian
Emacs 23
$ sudo apt-get install emacs
Emacs 24
See emacs-snapshot APT repo. The page contains installation instructions. High quality, highly recommended builds! After adding the repo according to the instructions linked to above, install with the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
Ubuntu
Emacs 23
$ sudo apt-get install emacs
Emacs 24
Old ppa is deprecated so you've got to build from source.
Gentoo
See Emacs on Gentoo page.
Arch Linux
Emacs 23
$ sudo pacman -S emacs
Emacs 24
See emacs-bzr package from AUR
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.