Installing Emacs 28.2 on Chrome OS Flex (Debian)

Hi_ItsPaul · 2022-11-21 08:45

I did this today! Check out NixOS. It was pretty painless to use that package manager. I installed emacs 28 with native comp

tacosandlinux · 2022-11-21 11:59

You have a few options. I do recommended installing from source though. 1. Install from source. Easy but takes time if on a lower end spec Chromebook. 2. Flatpak. Easy but some permissions issues may creep up. 3. Snap. Easy but slow first startup. 4. Other Linux Distro. Hard. Mainly time consuming to install another Linux distribution in place of Debian.

spilmad · 2022-11-21 12:37

Don't be afraid to build from source , there is alot of documentation on how to do this but if you really can't bother you could always use snap.

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spilmad · 2022-11-21 15:36

What exactly is your issue here, is it with your package manger, with git, with what exactly, what command are you trying to run?

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oantolin · 2022-11-21 17:46

I installed Emacs 28.2 on my Chromebook from the debian unstable repository: 1. Add the repo to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emacs.list: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free 2. Make the unstable repository the lowest priority repo so apt doesn't try to switch over all your packages to unstable. Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences.d/emacs.pref: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 65 Explanation: Only want unstable for Emacs 3. Install emacs telling `apt` to use the unstable repo: sudo apt install -t unstable emacs (I'm not completely sure that last step is exactly right, look up the apt install documentation to make sure.)