<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div></div><div>As of 24.4 (and 24.04.1), emacs is now a snap. I don't remember which snap command I used to install the snap - I might have even used the "App Centre".</div><div><br></div><div>My system is running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS on a lenovo T420 ThinkPad.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the results of me getting info on the emacs snap:-<br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">$ snap info emacs<br>name:      emacs<br>summary:   GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor<br>publisher: Alex Murray (alexmurray)<br>store-url: <a href="https://snapcraft.io/emacs">https://snapcraft.io/emacs</a><br>contact:   <a href="https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/issues">https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/issues</a><br>license:   GPL-3.0+<br>description: |<br>  Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time<br>  display editor.<br>  <br>  Features include:<br>    * Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types.<br>    * Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.<br>    * Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts.<br>    * Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.<br>    * An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project<br>      planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.<br>    * A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.<br>  <br>  This snap is built via the <a href="http://build.snapcraft.io">build.snapcraft.io</a> service from the<br>  snapcraft.yaml definition at <a href="https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap">https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap</a> to<br>  ensure source and build transparency.<br>snap-id: 4gE2S31SnK2LeqsZF8XTPuHOlqlzbqsW<br>channels:<br>  latest/stable:    29.4                   2024-06-25 (2504) 376MB classic<br>  latest/candidate: 29.4                   2024-06-25 (2504) 376MB classic<br>  latest/beta:      29.4                   2024-11-12 (2560) 399MB classic<br>  latest/edge:      31.0.50-master-e7810ab 2024-10-22 (2547) 343MB classic<br>  pgtk/stable:      –                                              <br>  pgtk/candidate:   –                                              <br>  pgtk/beta:        –                                              <br>  pgtk/edge:        30.0.50-master-a470dfb 2024-01-30 (2385) 357MB classic<br>  28.x/stable:      28.2                   2023-09-23 (2192) 241MB classic<br>  28.x/candidate:   ↑                                              <br>  28.x/beta:        28.2                   2023-12-10 (2306) 241MB classic<br>  28.x/edge:        ↑                                              <br></span><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian<br></div></div>