All good things happen while procrastinating… In this case I now have emacs24 running in ChrUbuntu on my Chromebook!
Emacs 24 on the ARM chromebook under ChrUbuntu
Here’s what I did:
- Make sure to run
apt-get updateand refresh all of your packages. - I used the update manager gui to update a ton of packages.
- Download the emacs 24 source: emacs-24.2.tar.gz
- There are a few other packages missing, which I learned through multiple
configuregrumblings. But this line should get you all the required dependencies:sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg-dev libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libncurses-dev - Then fire off the normal build steps of:
configure; make; sudo make install
Enjoy 
The first configure error I ran into
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Worked like a charm!
Thanks for saving me some time
No problem! Of course, now Emacs 24.3 is out, but I haven’t tried upgrading yet. 24.2 is running fine for me.
Downloading emacs 24.3 as we speak.
Will report back the result
Update: Emacs 24.3.1 works like a charm!
I haven’t read the release notes yet, but it’s up and running on the arm chroomebook in Ubuntu.
Awesome! Thanks for the update. When I get a few minutes I’ll have to upgrade myself. There was a good post here about what’s new in this release.
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