<p>My <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/07/30/building-emacs-25-2-on-xubuntu-17-04/">previous instructions</a> for installing a newer Emacs version on Ubuntu still work. Ubuntu (and in my case, XUbuntu) 19.04 ships with Emacs 26.1 out of the box. As usual I want to run the latest version - <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00577.html">Emacs 26.3</a> - as I run that on my other Linux, FreeBSD and macOS machines.</p>
<p>I haven’t used Ubuntu much recently after switching several systems to Manjaro, but had to set up a laptop with XUbuntu 17.04. That came with Emacs 24.5 as the default emacs package, and as skeeto pointed out in the comments, with a separate emacs25 package for Emacs 25.1. I tend to run the latest release Emacs everywhere out of habit, so I revisited my build instructions to build a current Emacs on Ubuntu and its derivates. The good news is that in thanks to some changes in the Emacs…
<p>A reader of this blog kindly pointed out that my instructions for <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2016/10/08/how-to-build-gnu-emacs-25-1-on-xubuntu-16-04/">building Emacs 25.1</a> on Ubuntu 16.10 result in a core dump when the build process bootstraps emacs. I only tested the instructions on 16.04 so I hadn’t run into this issue yet.</p>
<p>Now that GNU Emacs 25.1 has been released, it is time for my customary “how to install Emacs 25.1 on a recent Ubuntu” post. In my case I’m using XUbuntu 16.04, but the instructions are pretty much the same for just about every recent Ubuntu version. The package versions of the referenced packages differ, but the package names haven’t changed since I first published one of these posts.</p>
<p>Yes, I know <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu</a> already come with Chromium in their official package repositories, but sometimes it does help to have the official/commercial version installed in addition to the Open Source one. I actually both installed right now, plus Firefox and <a href="https://vivaldi.com/">Vivaldi</a>. You could almost think I’m some sort of web developer or something.</p>
