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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by MITM0@lemmy.world to c/emacs@lemmy.ml
 

Okay, so this is probably a stupid question, I use Pop!_OS & the current emacs version is Emacs-27 So, If I had to install the latest one (Emacs-29.1 or even Emacs-30.0.93) what does one have to do, compile it manually ?

Or is there another way ?

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[โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So the sequence is as follows:-

  1. First of all we'll have to do this in Debian
apt build-dep emacs
  1. Next up
git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
  1. Then we do this after navigating to the emacs source code folder
./configure && make && make install

Did I miss anything ??

[โ€“] bunitor 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

you might have to set a different --prefix during the ./configure stage if you don't want to install it as root, but other than that, i think this is it. please read the INSTALL file and also the output of ./configure --help