How to install Emacs 25.3.2 in Ubuntu 18.04
To install Emacs 25.3.2 in Ubuntu 18.04
Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor. Emacs runs on several operating systems. Emacs and its derivatives are a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. Emacs Lisp gives an extension capability allowing users and developers to write new commands using a dialect of the Lisp programming language with different " modes" , enabling it to be used like an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming languages like Java, C or Python. It contains features such as Content-aware editing modes, Complete built-in documentation, Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Emacs in Ubuntu 18.04.
Installation
Add the repository of Emacs using PPA
root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
This repository contains updated `emacs` packages based on stable releases.
The following package series are available:
- `emacs26`: based on 26.x-series releases.
- `emacs25`: based on 25.x-series releases.
The `emacs26` packages have `mailutils` and `systemd` support (the two build-time options that are new in `emacs26`) enabled. The `emacs26` packages for 14.04 have failed to build because not all of the dependencies that are required to enable these options are available.
The `emacs26` packages have xwidgets support. The `emacs25` packages do not. If you are interested in xwidgets support in `emacs25`, please send me a note it would not be hard to update those packages.
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Reading package lists... Done
Install the Emacs package using the following command
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install emacs25 -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
emacs25-common gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2-common libgconf-2-4 libgif7
liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 libm17n-0 libotf0 m17n-db
Suggested packages:
m17n-docs gawk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ctags25 to provide /usr/bin/ctags (ctags) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ebrowse25 to provide /usr/bin/ebrowse (ebrowse) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacs-25.325 to provide /usr/bin/emacs-25.3 (emacs-25.3) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacs25 to provide /usr/bin/emacs (emacs) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacsclient25 to provide /usr/bin/emacsclient (emacsclient) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/etags25 to provide /usr/bin/etags (etags) in auto mode
Setting up gconf-service-backend (3.2.6-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Once Installation is done you can access the Emacs from the Menu as shown here
Emacs application
The version of Emacs can be found in Help-> About
With this, the method to install Emacs on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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