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Question says it all, emacs 27 doesn't seem to be available through apt-get on my ubuntu version nor PPAs. Does that mean I have to build it from source? Thank you.

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    snapcraft.io/emacs shows 26.3 from the stable channel, 27.0.90 from beta, and 28.0.50 from edge channels.
    – guiverc
    Apr 5, 2020 at 7:27
  • @guiverc ah, is that what the snap installing thing uses? I will look into it, thank you
    – Jose V
    Apr 5, 2020 at 7:38

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Here's how I compiled it from source on Ubuntu 16.04 (there's also instructions in the Emacs documentation):

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/338317/what-is-makeinfo-and-how-do-i-get-it
sudo apt install --yes texinfo
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55297581/build-emacs-ubuntu-libraries-not-found
sudo apt install --yes libxpm-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libgnutls28-dev

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git /tmp/emacs \
    && cd /tmp/emacs \
    && git checkout emacs-27 \
    && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make \
    && mv ./src/emacs /usr/bin/emacs \
    && rm -rf /tmp/emacs

Also, if you want to use Doom Emacs, you'll also need:

# rg
# https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases
curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/11.0.2/ripgrep_11.0.2_amd64.deb \
    && sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_11.0.2_amd64.deb \
    && rm ripgrep_11.0.2_amd64.deb
# fd
# https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases
curl -LO https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/download/v8.1.1/fd-musl_8.1.1_amd64.deb \
    && sudo dpkg -i fd-musl_8.1.1_amd64.deb \
    && rm fd-musl_8.1.1_amd64.deb

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
~/.emacs.d/bin/doom install
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  • I've to run make install to get the doom part working
    – Āchahms
    May 19, 2021 at 12:13
  • @Āchahms "I've" doesn't work the way you are using it.
    – Boris
    May 19, 2021 at 12:23
  • do you think it has to do with su mode or something, i was trying to run all this in su shell. sorry completely new to debian/linux
    – Āchahms
    May 20, 2021 at 6:17
  • the error i was getting: Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/usr/local/libexec/emacs/27.2.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/': No such file or directory
    – Āchahms
    May 20, 2021 at 6:23
  • And maybe add sudo apt install libjansson-dev to get native JSON support compiled in
    – Dilettant
    Jun 11, 2021 at 10:41
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snap install emacs --beta --classic
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  • yeah this worked, i had to install emacs26 from the PPA for the snap to work though.... more info here github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/issues/11
    – Jose V
    Apr 6, 2020 at 4:02
  • ok so since I had emacs26 installed I had to clean emacs config, since I was using doom-emacs this meant delete ~/.emacs.d/.local then run doom sync to reinstall. Then it worked without emacs26
    – Jose V
    Apr 10, 2020 at 6:17

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