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---
title: "Compiling emacs from source code on Fedora"
date: 2019-11-16
lastmod: 2020-08-25
tags: ['emacs', 'emacs27','linux', 'fedora']
---

Compiling emacs from source and installing on fedora.

# Installing Packages

Install the following packages:

```shell
sudo dnf install git autoconf make gcc texinfo \
    gnutls-devel giflib-devel ncurses-devel \
    libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel gtk3-devel \
    libXpm-devel libtiff-devel libxml2-devel -y
```

# Cloning Repository

Clone repository
[savannah.gnu.org](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/):

    git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git

# Compiling

Navigate to emacs folder (`cd emacs`) and run the following steps

```shell
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
```

After verify version with `emacs --version`, it should be equal or
higher than `28.0.50`.