Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux

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The following PPA is no longer maintained and currently features Emacs 24.3.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