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Emacs uninstallation and upgrade

Currently I have the standard Emacs installation, 2.3.1, from Ubuntu repo, but would like to get a newer version of Emacs from GNU website, which is 2.3.4. My question is that do I need to wipe out my ...
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Unable to do ./configure during emacs installation

I want to install emacs on my XUBUNTU 12.04. So I downloaded the emacs.tar.gz file. I did tar zxf emacs_x.x.x to extract it to a folder. Then cd emacs/ Then I tried to ./configure. This is not ...
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Unable to install Qt XUBUTNU 12.04 fresh install

I've Qt SDK which is an offline installer. According to the instructions given for installation, first I have to chmod u+x Qt_SDK_Offline.run then ./Qt_SDK_Offline.run But when I do ...
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basic beginning emacs questions - install latest version and pick appropriate UI

I'm running the latest Kubuntu (12.04 beta 2) and I would like to run the latest emacs (currently v24). The repos are one version behind. What's the best way to install v24 or later (and avoid future ...