Build emacs on ubuntu

build-emacs.sh

# Setting up Emacs in our source directory
mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src
git clone --depth 1 --branch emacs-30 git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
git checkout emacs-30
 
# Enable development libraries and update apt cache
# for Ubuntu >= 24.04
sudo sed -i 's/^Types: deb$/Types: deb deb-src/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources && apt update

# for ubuntu < 24, uncomment and use the following 
# sudo sed -i 's/# deb-src/deb-src/' /etc/apt/sources.list && apt update
 
# Install necessary dependencies
sudo apt build-dep -y emacs \
  && sudo apt install libtree-sitter-dev
 
# Generate the configure file
./autogen.sh
 
# Configure Emacs with desired options 
# --with-ctags --with-dbus --with-debug --with-mailutils --with-x11 --with-xwidgets
./configure --with-imagemagick
 
# Compile with 4 cores
make -j4 bootstrap
 
# Verify the version
./src/emacs --version
 
# Optionally, test things by launching Emacs without any configuration
./src/emacs -Q
 
# When things look good, install Emacs system-wide
sudo make install

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updated!

For 24.04 the source list has been moved. This will do the trick:

sed -i 's/^Types: deb$/Types: deb deb-src/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources

Though I ran into some other issues and had to drop a few of your config flags.

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I'm pretty sure the --with-json is no longer used on emacs30: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/New-in-Emacs-30.html

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The clone should be:

 git clone --depth 1 --branch emacs-30 git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git

--branch requires a branch...

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