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Vee Satayamas
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Install Emacs 27.2 on openSUSE LEAP 15.3 from a source tarball

#emacs #opensuse

Install pre-requisited tools 

sudo zypper install make gcc automake autoconf libtool aclocal wget
sudo zypper si -d emacs
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Download Emacs source tarball 

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.2.tar.gz
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Extract and change directory 

tar xzvf emacs-27.2.tar.gz
cd emacs-27.2
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Generate makefiles 

./configure --prefix=/opt > log
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Make 

make -j `nproc`
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Install 

sudo make install
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Add path

Add the line below to ~/.bashrc by nano ~/.bashrc

export PATH="/opt/bin:$PATH"
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