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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:29:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn3gidvw.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFDHx1LZ4k=rMZxyySiOi1qHue8OwsiA+=opphFNOw=4MgiL_Q@mail.gmail.com> (Patrick Mahan's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:46:13 -0700")

Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> writes:

> All,
>
> 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?).

Yes, why not? Maybe some recent features are missing with the default
libraries provided by that distribution (the libgccjit package probably
is too old, so you will not have native compilation of Elisp) but even
current Emacs development sources should build and run just fine.

You'll need to install the build dependencies, something like this
should be enough:

sudo apt-get install emacs

then grab the Emacs sources and follow the instructions on the INSTALL
file.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-16 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-16 20:46 Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04 Patrick Mahan
2023-03-16 21:26 ` Marcus Harnisch
2023-03-16 21:29 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2023-03-16 21:49   ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-03-28 12:55     ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2023-03-16 21:58 ` christian de larrinaga via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-16 22:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-03-20  1:38   ` David Masterson
2023-03-20  3:09     ` Po Lu
2023-03-20  3:48       ` David Masterson
2023-03-20  8:13     ` tomas
2023-03-17  1:57 ` Po Lu
2023-03-20  6:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-23  0:38   ` David Masterson
2023-03-23  2:59     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-28 13:26 ` Oleg Cherkasov

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