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Use this tag for questions about using and installing Emacs in the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

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Prebuilt Ubuntu Emacs "25.1"

Where can I find pre-built Emacs for what Ubuntu calls emacs 25.1?
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Emacs manuals are missing on Debian/Ubuntu

I was expecting the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual at (C-h i m elisp). But there was no menu elisp or lisp there. C-h v and C-h f work fine for variables or functions though. C-h i 5 takes me to file permissions. What other binding is standard to find…
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Packages I never knew they existed cause problems

I'm using Kubuntu 22.04 and I tried to configure my doom-emacs Installation. Then I got these weird error-messages and couldn't figure out how to fix them. So I uninstalled doom and emacs completely and normal emacs seems to work fine but when I try…
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Emacs is garbled by output of a background process running in the same terminal emulator

My Emacs is running in foreground in terminal emulator, where I am also running some background processes. My Emacs is garbled by the stdout and stderr output of the background process. Besides redirecting the stdout and stderr output of the…
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some unicode characters such as "⊆" occupy 3 lines in emacs 24.4.1 on ubuntu gnome 15.04 64bit

Not every unicode character occupies 3 lines, but '⊆', '∈', and other unicode mathematical symbols occupy 3 lines in emacs on my system. How can I fix this rendering bug?
user8780
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Flycheck r-lintr doesn't find anything

I want to use lintr to check R-files in emacs. According to https://github.com/jimhester/lintr#emacs lintr is fully integrated into flycheck when using ESS. See the installalation documentation for those packages for more information. So per…
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Replace whole words only

I want to replace all occurrences of a word in the whole buffer. What i do is: M-x replace-string RET word-to-be-replaced RET new-word The problem with this is that it also changes the word-to-be-replaced even if its only part of another word (for…
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How do I install An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp?

This may sound odd, but when I type C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro -- it's not there. I'm on Ubuntu 19.10 with Emacs 26.3. I tried apt-get install emacs-lisp-intro as the EmacsWiki said, but there's no such thing in the Ubuntu world. How can I get it…
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Using emacs-snapshot from ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa on 22.04

To have the latest emacs, on ubuntu 22.04 I activated the ppa https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and installed emacs-snapshot from there. When starting it I get the warning: You are trying to run Emacs configured with the…
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elpa certificate could not be verified

When I run package-list-packages, I'm getting an error: The TLS connection to elpa.gnu.org:443 is insecure for the following reason: certificate could not be verified I found a few other reports of this, but all seemed to be due to some local…
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How to install latest org mode 9.5+ version using elisp?

I have used a few steps to keep my org-mode updated from elpa. However, it does not seem to work on the newly released org mode 9.5. With Emacs 27.1 under Ubuntu 20.04, the latest org mode I could ever get to is: Org mode version 9.4.6…
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How to install and use exwm (the emacs based window manager) in Ubuntu 19.04?

I am running Ubuntu 19.04 on my laptop and want to use EXWM as my window manager, but am not sure how to get it into the list of window managers that one can pull down when one logs in. It seems to only list "officially supported" ones.
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Executing buffer twice in Python 3

I set up an environment to write Python 3 Code in my emacs (25.2.2) using python-mode and Elpy on Ubuntu 18.04. Strangely every time I use Python --> Send --> Execute Buffer the program is executed twice. It doesn't matter whether I use the mapped…
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Key bindings are not recognized with non-Latin keyboard layouts on Ubuntu

A lot of times I have to change the input language of the keyboard (from English to a different one) causing the problem of the Emacs commands to not be recognized. Normally when you press Ctrl+A you move to the beginning of the line. When I have a…
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Emacs times out trying to read from /dev/tty on startup?

After several years of being annoyed of Emacs on Ubuntu (not Mac via brew) having a ~2-3 second delay before displaying file contents at startup I finally decided to debug this. I ran strace -r emacs and piped all output to a file. Reading through…
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