What is emacs-snapshot?

emacs-snapshot is a set of packages of the CVS version of GNU Emacs for the Debian operating system. It is updated weekly from the CVS trunk. Two flavors are available: a GTK version (emacs-snapshot) and a console-only version (emacs-snapshot-nox).

The recommended version for desktop users is emacs-snapshot. For servers, emacs-snapshot-nox is usually a better choice since it has minimal dependencies.

News

September 15th, 2007: The sarge backport has been discontinued. Please upgrade to etch!

September 2nd, 2007: GTK+ is now the default toolkit and emacs-snapshot now includes the multi-tty feature.

August 22nd, 2007: We're now tracking the CVS trunk again. See this page for more information.

June 04th, 2007: Emacs 22.1 has been released, the 20070529-1 snapshot isn't exactly identical to it, but very close. The packages will continue to follow the Emacs 22 branch for a while.

May 16th, 2007: amd64 binary packages are now available!

Latest versions

Archive contents:

etch|main|i386: emacs-snapshot 1:20080215-1~etch1
etch|main|amd64: emacs-snapshot 1:20080215-1~etch1
etch|main|source: emacs-snapshot 1:20080215-1~etch1

sid|main|i386: emacs-snapshot 1:20080510-1
sid|main|amd64: emacs-snapshot 1:20080510-1
sid|main|source: emacs-snapshot 1:20080510-1

Installation instructions

To install emacs-snapshot on Debian unstable (sid), put the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main
deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main

(Replace http with ftp if needed.)

To install emacs-snapshot on Debian stable (etch), put the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://emacs.orebokech.com etch main
deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com etch main

Then run aptitude update. You can then install one or several of the following packages: emacs-snapshot or emacs-snapshot-nox.

Archive key

The key used to sign this archive has id C03C56DF:

pub   1024D/C03C56DF 2001-05-06
      Key fingerprint = 5559 1CCF 071D E5AD 3976  D6F0 A203 76BE C03C 56DF
uid                  Romain Francoise (orebokech) <romain@orebokech.com>
uid                  Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>
uid                  Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@gnu.org>

It should be available on your nearest keyserver, you can also get it with the command 'finger rfrancoise/key@db.debian.org', or alternatively you can download it from here. See this page for more information on signed apt archives.

Reporting bugs

Please don't file bugs in the Debian BTS for these packages.

For bugs related to the packaging, email me.
For bugs in Emacs itself, use M-x report-emacs-bug.

The packages on this site are provided for convenience only, and come with absolutely no warranty whatsoever.