Re: Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.