From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:11:57 -0600 Message-ID: <20151001140900308162590@bob.proulx.com> References: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443730337 31804 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 20:12:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 20:12:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 22:12:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhkDA-0003dA-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhkD9-0004vb-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhkCw-0004u5-Eu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhkCs-0002NP-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:50873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhkCs-0002NL-8q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0CD21207 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:11:57 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F0AE2DC48; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:11:57 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107439 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > I'm on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1, but I'd like to have an older Emacs > installed, too. What is the fastest way to achive that? (I would > prefer to compile from source - I have the Git repository anyway, though > only shallow clone, but I can clone the whole thing, too.) You have previously mentioned that you are running Ubuntu. In which case it should be the same as my Debian. Just install the other versions. They will install side by side without conflict. apt-get install emacs24 apt-get install emacs23 ... Or use one of the varients. I am partial to emacs24-lucid for graphical desktops and emacs24-nox for headless servers. Bob