Installing Emacs 29.1

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Hey! I’m trying to figure out how to install the latest version of emacs that was recently released. sudo dnf install emacs installs the previous version which isn’t what I want :frowning: .

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Welcome to Fedora @marcc

Unfortunately within 3 days we do not get new packages for such a recent version.

If you really want to use the newest version you might want to install it manually:

GNU Emacs download - GNU Project

Here you can see the status of the newest packages:

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Thanks!

Seems that’s the way to go then. However, I’m not sure how to install it with the native GTK support. I’ll browse around and see if I find something.

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I’ve been using this script. Change the prefix to install where you want it.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'

#
# Build emacs 29 similarly to the current emacs 28 installed via flatpack in Fedora
#
# Don't forget to byte-recompile-directory all packages if you're moving to a
# new emacs executable, or the packages will hallucinate when loaded. A failsafe
# way to do that is either delete your elpaca or straight directory (if you use
# these) or if you have your configuration in version control, nuke your local
# emacs.d and clone it again (although you would lose all history and things
# that are not under version control).
#
# This script is designed to run from inside of a local emacs git checkout.
#

sudo dnf builddep -y emacs
sudo dnf install -y libtree-sitter-devel wxBase-devel wxGTK3-devel libwebp-devel

CC='CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro gcc'
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

make distclean
make uninstall

git checkout emacs-29
git pull
git reset --hard HEAD # Remove all local changes to tracked files

./autogen.sh
./configure \
  --prefix=$HOME/.local \
  --without-pop \
  --with-mailutils \
  --with-pgtk \
  --without-x \
  --with-xwidgets \
  --with-cairo \
  --without-compress-install \
  --with-native-compilation \
  --with-json \
  --with-dbus \
  --with-gif \
  --with-jpeg \
  --with-png \
  --with-rsvg \
  --with-tiff \
  --with-webp \
  --with-gpm \
  --with-modules \
  --with-harfbuzz \
  build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \
  host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

make -j8
make install
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@marcc Do you have an estimate for when emacs 29 will be available on fedora 38?

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Not so sure if it will be available on F38. For F39 there is apparently a package created.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=emacs

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Is it possible to install this Fedora 39 package on Fedora 38?

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On flat-hub the desired flat-pak is available also for F38 (v 29.1). You can choose it from Software app in Gnome or on the terminal like:

flatpak install flathub org.gnu.emacs