On Thu, 19 Feb 2026, [email protected] wrote:
I'd like to find the easiest way to install Emacs 29 (the latest) on Debian
Jessie.
Is it possible? Reasonably easy? Is there one package I can download or will
I be in dependency hell?
I'd prefer not to have to compile.
As others have said, Jessie is very old.
Having said that, I still do some work on Jessie (I do some testing on
potato too), but almost all of it is in a chroot rather than a booted
system and I bind mount so that I can use a modern editor on a modern
OS editing the files that the jessie chroot sees.
Where I absolutely need to use a booted system and an original kernel
then I just make do with whatever was present in jessie - but for the
most part you can make do with a modern kernel and there's little need
to boot.
Tim.
