From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:30:58 +0100 Message-ID: <875yb09vml.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12132"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:d/SL+hAujy9rZ/5tisyew+TLAJY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 17 14:23:03 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pdA2x-0002xe-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:23:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pdA2R-00010q-4l; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pcw7o-0004bt-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pcw7m-0006l2-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pcw7k-0005PH-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:31:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:22:30 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143060 Archived-At: Patrick Mahan wrote: > I have to do development work on some machines running > Ubuntu 18.04 which seems to only support emacs 25. > > Can Ubuntu support a new version? (26, 27 or higher?). :O ?? Absolutely, I'm on Debian (and Ubuntu is Debian on steroids - useless ones, some say ...) and I use Emacs version GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-12-26 [commit 2ffe1494e16381cfc7fec95a6a0879f268df3e95] Emacs 25.1 was released 2016-09-17 [1] i.e. 6y 5m 27d ago! So you are absolutely right, most certainly don't do development on that! Here are commands how to install the latest version, they work on Debian so why not on Ubuntu with or without very minor changes required: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal