Is there a way I can install two versions of Emacs on the same machine ? The last time I tried installing versions 24 and 25 neither of the installations was working and the easiest solution was to reinstall the operating system. This is Ubuntu 18.04.
Virtual machine is a solution, of course, but I was wondering how you are dealing with such situations.
The reason for this is I want to try Spacemacs, Emacs26 and different packages without polluting my current setup.
Since my question "appears subjective", answers like "use the virtual machine" would be fine.
wget && tar && cd && ./configure && make && src/emacs
, I don't need to "install" anything, all built files are kept inside the Emacs source directory. – xuchunyang Apr 6 '19 at 5:46&& make install
at the end:make install
would copy the files into the same default places asapt install
would, and "overwrite" the "default" version of emacs. – Greg Hendershott Apr 9 '19 at 13:06make install
puts the files under/usr/local/
, so it wouldn't conflict withapt install
ed files. – npostavs Apr 10 '19 at 1:10