This article will show how to install rapidly emacs 24 on ubuntu based system (linuxmint 13/14 for example) from 11.10 to 12.10.
ubuntu based 12.10
It's now in the main repository so just:
sudo aptitude install emacs24
ubuntu based 11.10/12.04
Pre-requisites:
ubuntu 11.10/12.04
internet access
What will be installed?
emacs 24 with emacs-live
How to?
Install
Here are the scripts to download:
wget https://github.com/ardumont/sh/blob/master/deploy/deploy-emacs24.sh chmod +x deploy-emacs24.sh && deploy-emacs24.sh
Start emacs
emacs
This will automatically search and install the asked packages (cf. next chapter for some more details).
Some more details
deploy
deploy-emacs24.sh
Content
#!/usr/bin/env bash WDIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0)) $WDIR/add-apt-repository.sh ppa:cassou/emacs $WDIR/install.sh emacs-snapshot-el emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs-snapshot emacs24-el # check for updates sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y # check version emacs --version
Setup
Launch the installation process of a default setup that comes from the emacs-live page:
bash <(curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/overtone/emacs-live/master/installer/install-emacs-live.sh)