Emacs 24.4 installation on Ubuntu 14.04 without sudo

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Installing Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 without sudo privilege

Just run:

sh ./ubuntu14.04-emacs-24.4-install.sh

This will install ncurses which is dependency of emacs24.4. It may requires another dependencies depending on your environment. Note that configure options in emacs installation are for disabling GUI features.

ubuntu14.04-emacs-24.4-install.sh

#! /bin/sh
rm -rf build
mkdir -p build
cd build
# Install ncurses
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
tar xvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local --without-install-prefix --with-termlib --enable-termcap --enable-getcap --enable-tcap-names --with-shared
make && make install
cd ..

# install emacs
wget http://open-source-box.org/emacs/emacs-24.4.tar.xz
tar xvf emacs-24.4.tar.xz
cd emacs-24.4
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/.local/lib --without-pop --without-kerberos --without-mmdf --without-sound --without-wide-int --without-xpm --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif --without-png --without-rsvg --without-xml2 --without-imagemagick --without-xft --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-xaw3d --without-xim --without-ns --without-gpm --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings --without-selinux --without-gnutls --without-x
make && make install
cd ..

Thanks, it still works for me in Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

hmm, emacs version 25.3 works