Upgrading Emacs?
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
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!
Thanks to you both for the helpful information!