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I use the following script to install Emacs 25 on Ubuntu, sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-elisp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot

When I start the emacs-snapshot program I get this error message

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable seq) byte-code("\302\303\304\305#\210\302\303\306\307#\210\310\311!\2037 require(seq) byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\207" [require cl-lib seq] 2) require(cl-extra)

It shows the seq package is missing, but I can't find it using the package-list-packages function.

How to fix this or is there another way to install Emacs 25 on Ubuntu?

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  • This is likely related to the byte code in your config being incompatible. Try emacs-snapshot -Q.
    – abo-abo
    Aug 12, 2015 at 9:47
  • I don't know what's wrong but I can use emacs-snapshot -Q -l "~/.emacs" to start Emacs, thanks you very much!! Aug 12, 2015 at 11:34
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    I had a similar issue and deleted the .elc files in my .emacs.d and everything worked out.
    – Ibrahim
    Jan 25, 2016 at 21:50

1 Answer 1

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Looks like you've written

(require seq)

rather than

(require 'seq)

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