Re: Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04

[Emanuel Berg]

Patrick Mahan wrote:

> 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?).

:O ??

Absolutely, I'm on Debian (and Ubuntu is Debian on steroids -
useless ones, some say ...) and I use Emacs version

  GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo
  version 1.16.0) of 2022-12-26 [commit
  2ffe1494e16381cfc7fec95a6a0879f268df3e95]

Emacs 25.1 was released 2016-09-17 [1] i.e. 6y 5m 27d ago!
So you are absolutely right, most certainly don't do
development on that!

Here are commands how to install the latest version, they work
on Debian so why not on Ubuntu with or without very minor
changes required:

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html

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