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Yes! I have Ubuntu at my office and is difficult to get the latest emacs. I found a PPA but it has a bit of lagging behind..

• rolandog 3y ago
  My approach has been to install Guix, and with Guix install emacs-next (and python-wrapper, and python-pip). I'm still a Guix newb, so all I can say is that there may be some tweaking to be done if you're using non-default paths, (e.g. XDG Base Directory Specification) [0]. [0]: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00452.html https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg0045...
• botanical 3y ago
  There's a snap that's updated very quickly: https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/ https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/ In fact, it's already updated
  • trogdc 3y ago
    Does this have native-comp enabled? Or do you still have to build from source for that?
    • botanical 3y ago
      No, it's enabled by default. Last I built Emacs, it took me more than an hour to build. The default branch has native-compilation, tree-sitter, and json enabled. See here for the enabled flags: https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/blob/master/snapcraft.yaml https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/blob/master/snapcra...
• bachmeier 3y ago
  It would definitely be nice to have an updated PPA, but compared to some apps, Emacs is simple and fast to compile - just a ./configure followed by make. (The first time, you need to install a few dependencies, but that's automated too, something like apt-get build-dep emacs).
  • botanical 3y ago
    > fast to compile Last I tried building Emacs, it took me more than hour. I now use a snap that's updated very quickly and is already updated to 29.1: https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/ https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/
    • bachmeier 3y ago
      It takes under a minute with an ancient i5 for me, so I'm not sure what would cause yours to be so slow.
• Y_Y 3y ago
  I have a script to build it myself, took a little but of time to get right, but now it works nicely and I can stay at the bleeding edge.
  • adr1an 3y ago
    All these answers got me inspired. Might as well try this. But for the sake of not reinventing the wheel, Would you mind sharing? Maybe as a github gist or any pastebin would suffice. (PS. I'm already afraid the GCC version of my Ubuntu 20 throws issues hehe! Let's see!!)
    • Y_Y 3y ago
      Sure, here's the gist of it with some unrelated stuff removed. This was made for Ubuntu 18.04, but the deb will work on 20.04 as well. apt-get update apt-get install -y git software-properties-common make checkinstall autoconf texinfo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test apt-get update apt-get install -y gcc-10 g++-10 libgccjit0 libgccjit-10-dev libjansson4 libjansson-dev libgtk-3-dev apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libgnutls28-dev libncurses-dev update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-10 10 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-10 10 git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git --branch=master # or use emacs-28.1 or whatever tag cd emacs || exit ./autogen.sh ./configure \ --with-cairo \ --with-gnutls \ --with-harfbuzz \ --with-jpeg \ --with-json \ --with-mailutils \ --with-modules \ --with-native-compilation \ --with-pgtk \ --with-png \ --with-rsvg \ --with-tiff \ --with-wide-int \ --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 \ --with-xft \ --with-xml2 \ --with-xpm \ --without-compress-install \ --without-gconf \ --without-gsettings \ --without-imagemagick \ --without-toolkit-scroll-bars \ --without-xaw3d \ --without-xwidgets \ CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=native -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" \ prefix=/usr/local make -j"$(nproc)" NATIVE_FULL_AOT=1 checkinstall -y -D --install=no \ --pkgname=${pkgname}-nativecomp \ --pkgversion=1"$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" \ --requires="libjansson-dev,libharfbuzz-dev,libgccjit-10-dev" \ --pkggroup=emacs \ --gzman=yes \ make install-strip