Re: There is a docker image of GNU Emacs?

[Dan Hitt]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:32 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> 황병희 wrote:
>
> > Hi i would like to test GNU Emacs 27.2 possibly with docker
> > image. Currently my OS is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Any comments
> > welcome!!!
>
> Heh, docker?
>
> Get the source and compile, Emacs is super-easy to compile,
> even I can do it, so you sure can. It doesn't interrupt with
> anything, get source, try, and discard if you are defecting
> to vim or something.
>
> You can get the source from your distro's repos
>
>   apt-get source $emacs
>
> but better just download it:
>
>    http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/gnu.org/gnu/emacs/



Actually, on a current ubuntu system, as i think 18.04 LTS should be, it
should be available as a package.

sudo apt-get install emacs

>From the point of view of the ubuntu way of doing things, i think this
would be the canonical move to make.

dan



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