emacs Getting started with emacs Installation or Setup
Example
Detailed instructions on getting emacs set up or installed.
Official instructions are available on the GNU Emacs website.
Debian systems
On systems with the Debian package manager (such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint) Emacs can be installed via the simple command:
sudo apt-get install emacs
For a bleeding-edge release one can use the following ppa:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa
sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
Build for source
If your debian based distro does not have the version of emacs you want you can build it from scratch.
sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 -y
cd /tmp/
wget http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-25.0.93.tar.xz
tar -xvf emacs-25.0.93.tar.xz
cd emacs-25.0.93
./configure
make
sudo make install
rm -rf /tmp/emacs-25.0.93*
Redhat systems
On systems with the Redhat package manager (such as RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora Core) Emacs can be installed via the simple command:
sudo yum install emacs
Arch Linux
Emacs can be installed via the simple command:
sudo pacman -Syu emacs
Gentoo and Funtoo
On systems running Portage, Emacs can be installed via the simple command:
sudo emerge emacs
GSRC (GNU Source Release Collection)
Works on any GNU/Linux system for getting the latest version of emacs without using the system package manager (which may be out of date) or downloading the archive or binary. To install gsrc see it's documentation. Then:
cd gsrc
make -C gnu/emacs install
# add the binaries to your PATH
source ./setup.sh
Darwin systems
Homebrew
brew install emacs --with-cocoa # basic install
# additional flags of interest can be viewed by calling `brew info emacs`
brew linkapps emacs # to put a symlink in your Applications directory
MacPorts
sudo port install emacs
pkgsrc
sudo pkgin -y install emacs-24.5
App Bundle
Precompiled app bundles for the latest stable and development versions can be downloaded at https://emacsformacosx.com.
Windows
Chocolatey package manager
Emacs can be installed with
choco install emacs
Scoop package manager
Can be installed from extras bucket
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install emacs
Official Binary Installers
(Note that official binaries do not come with some libraries - e.g., libraries for image formats)
Other Binary Installers
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64-Bit GNU Emacs for MS Windows with optimization provides native and optimized 64-bit binary installer with unmodified source code from git master and release version, with JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, SVG, XML2, and GnuTLS support out-of-box.
