<yambe:breadcrumb>Emacs</yambe:breadcrumb>

Emacs installation from source

Following steps can be used to install emacs from source:

Install libotf-devel using 'yum -y install libotf-devel'
Download emacs source code from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
Extract source code archive
Configure using './configure'. If you get no gif library support error (esp. on Cent-OS) then use './configure --with-gif=no
make
sudo make install
Run emacs using 'emacs' command and verify emacs version displayed on welcome screen. You can also use menu Help -> About emacs option to see emacs version. If emacs version is not latest then use something like 'sudo cp /usr/local/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs' to overwrite OS default emacs with source installed emacs.

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