Installation of Emacs 24.4

First off, you should download the Emacs 24.4 source tarball: cd ~ mkdir emacs-src && cd emacs-src wget http://mirror.team-cymru.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.4.tar.gz tar xvf emacs-24.4.tar.gz Now, you want to compile the Emacs binary.  sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 cd emacs-24.4 ./configure make sudo make install type  "emacs-24.4" to execute the Emacs  open /etc/bash.bashrc add   alias  emacs='emacs-24.4'