Hi I am using Rocky 8.6 and have emacs 26.1 installed.
I need to install a later version, preferably 28.
I could use flathub but the emacs version in flathub is not officially supported by emacs I dont think
I could download emacs and make but I do not understand that process, and still tried it and was told i am missing a C compiler, etc.
So I am hoping to get a later version of emacs from maybe a RHEL repo etc.
Is this possible?
Is there any other way to get a later version of emacs?
Thanks ahead of time
There are actually multiple versions of GCC (a C compiler, etc) available in Rocky. They have to be installed though.
There is a dnf group āDevelopment Toolsā. One can see defined groups with dnf --hidden group list
There are also more recent GCC and āgcc toolsetsā. See dnf list gcc-toolset\*
The latter do use Software Collection style, the scl utility, IIRC.
When you run āconfigureā and āmakeā, do it as regular account. Configure a prefix that you can write to, so that even the āmake installā wonāt require āsudoā.
Plan A is to take source package (*.src.rpm) from, say Fedora and run mock --rebuild name_of.src.rpm
(You have to install the āmockā from EPEL first and add your regular account to group āmockā.)
That may or may not work, but if it does, it will give you RPM-package to install.
Rather than run mock on your machine, one can do it on Copr servers too. That yields āa repo on the netā.
Some have already done so: kiso49j/emacs-pretest Copr
However, are you absolutely certain that you need something else than the Emacs that Rocky has?
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@jlehtone
Thank you very much for taking the time to help out and share your knowledge.
I am just a home user of Rocky Linux and so not a systems admin level person but I will go thru the steps you describe.
However, are you absolutely certain that you need something else than the Emacs that Rocky has?
I use org mode in emacs and it has a dynamic tag list generation and selection feature that does not seem to work properly in version 26.1 but does in 28.1
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