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Is there any way of installing Emacs 25 or 25.1 on Ubuntu 16.10 without having to compile from source?

I want a stable install of Emacs and do not wish to install an unstable or nightly build.

haziz
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  • In particular, look at http://askubuntu.com/a/694228/15003. – edwinksl Nov 20 '16 at 19:30
  • @edwinksl Except that that question provides no useful or relevant answers or solutions to my problem. – haziz Nov 20 '16 at 19:32
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    @edwinksl I want a stable release of emacs, not a nightly build. Emacs 25 has been released for a while. Surprising, since it is one of the most popular editors out there. – haziz Nov 20 '16 at 19:34
  • Fair enough, though you might want to specify you don't want a nightly build just in case people offer `ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa` as an answer. – edwinksl Nov 20 '16 at 19:36

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According to the r/emacs post in Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/55hnxo/best_way_to_update_on_ubuntu/d8b8jtg/, the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs provides the stable release of Emacs 25. To add this PPA, do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install emacs25
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