Adding info on make emacs

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* Compiling emacs in GNU linux systems
Install ~build-essential~
Emacs is available in all GNU-linux distributions. If you want to install emacs
directly from any free-software distribution, you may check [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html][this information]].
However, you may be interested in compiling emacs for your operational system.
To compile emacs it's important to install some development libraries before
downloading the emacs tarball.
** Install ~build-essential~
#+begin_example sh
sudo apt install build-essential
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sudo apt update && sudo apt build-dep emacs
#+end_example
Download emacs (tarball) and open the directory
** Download emacs (tarball), extract and open the source directory
Let's say you want to download emacs 28.2. You may use ~wget~ to download the tarball:
#+begin_example sh
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-28.2.tar.gz
#+end_example
Then, extract the files and open a terminal within the main directory of the package.
#+begin_example sh
tar xvfz emacs-28.2.tar.gz
#+end_example
Change the directory to the extracted files:
#+begin_example sh
cd emacs-28.2
#+end_example
** Execute the following commands in a terminal to begin with the process
#+begin_example sh
./autogen.sh
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#+begin_example sh
sudo make install
#+end_example
** References
* [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BuildingEmacs][Emacs wiki]]