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Compiling emacs in GNU linux systems
Emacs is available in all GNU-linux distributions. If you want to install emacs directly from any free-software distribution, you may check 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
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt update && sudo apt build-dep emacs
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:
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-28.2.tar.gz
Then, extract the files and open a terminal within the main directory of the package.
tar xvfz emacs-28.2.tar.gz
Change the directory to the extracted files:
cd emacs-28.2
Execute the following commands in a terminal to begin with the process
./autogen.sh
./configure
sudo make install