Emacs AppImage

AppImage is a single-file executable format for linux. This repo builds Emacs as AppImages for x86-64 linux systems.

Highlights

• Supports native-comp, native json, tree sitter
• Self-contained, no extra dependencies
• Automatically built on Github Actions
• Provides both latest release and daily master builds

Download

• Release & pre-release: latest version 30.0.92
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• Daily master build
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• NEW! Weekly mps build: the experimental MPS GC feature from scratch/igc branch. This version does not supports pgtk yet.
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Version string meanings

• x11: built with X11 GUI support
• pgtk: built with PGTK GUI support, for wayland desktop
• nox: built without GUI support

How-to

1. Download *.AppImage
2. chmod +x Emacs.AppImage
3. ./Emacs.AppImage

The appimage executable accepts the same arguments as emacs itself.

Furthermore, if you want to run any other binaries shipped with emacs (e.g. emacsclient, etags), add --emacs-appimage-run-as BINARY_NAME as the first arguments, aka: ./Emacs.AppImage --emacs-appimage-run-as emacsclient xxx yyy.

Prerequisite

• A not-too-old linux system (at least ~ ubuntu 18.04, which is the system it's built on)
• FUSE 2.x, which should be pre-installed in most distributions.
  • Recent distributions (e.g. ubuntu 22.04+) may have FUSE 3.x installed instead, you need to also install the 2.x version.
  • For more help, see here

Tested in:

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Fedora 39