emacs 24.5 on Ubuntu and spacemacs

Spacemacs on on Ubuntu 14.04

Build emacs-24.5

Install git and build-essential:

$ sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential

Install emacs24 build dependencies

$ sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24

Download the source for the version of emacs you want from the emacs ftp site

Unpack the source into a directory where you’re going to build it

$ cd /tmp
$ mv ~/Downloads/emacs-24.5.tar.xz .
$ tar -xf emacs-24.5.tar.xz 
$ cd emacs-24.5

Configure and build it

$ ./configure
$ make -j4
$ sudo make install

Install spacemacs

Move any existing emacs configuration to backup

$ mv ~/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.d.bak

Clone the spacemacs repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

Launch and it will install it’s required packages