Upgrading Emacs?

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beardystarstuff
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se unió: 06/18/2025

Hey folks, I'm new to Trisquel, just switched over from Mint a couple days ago. Loving it so far!

This is perhaps a silly newbie question, I noticed that the version of Emacs installed is 27.1. Looking in Synaptic and the apps package manager, newer versions are not offered. I removed it and installed via the terminal which resulted in the same verison, 27.1.

Is there something specific to Trisquel that limits the install to 27.1?

-Denny

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se unió: 07/24/2010

First of all: welcome!

The easiest way to get the latest version of Emacs is through Flathub. To install Flatpak, setup Flathub's "floss" subset and install Emacs, execute in a terminal:
$ sudo apt install flatpak
$ flatpak remote-add --subset=floss flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
$ flatpak install flathub org.gnu.emacs

Notice that the "floss" subset includes some free software that only aims to launch proprietary software!

beardystarstuff
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se unió: 06/18/2025

Thanks to you both for the helpful information!