Provides recent emacs versions dedicated to Ubuntu. - emacs24 will be updated only when I change the build process or when new emacs24 versions are realeased - emacs-snapshot are updated between once a week and once every two weeks on average. These versions are created from those of Julien Danjou for Debian unstable: http://emacs.naquadah.org/. To build this PPA, I created this script: https://gist.github.com/2360655 Please report bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs-snapshot/, but before reporting, please follow these steps that will ensure a clean installation: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install $ sudo apt-get purge emacs-snapshot-common emacs-snapshot-bin-common emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-el emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs23 emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23-el emacs23-nox emacs23-lucid auctex emacs24 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common To add this PPA: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs $ sudo apt-get update Then, for emacs-snapshot: $ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-el emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs-snapshot *Or*, for emacs24: $ sudo apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el · https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs