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hubisan / emacs-wsl

Install and run Emacs with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) in Windows 10 or 11.
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Add snap as an alternative to install Emacs #22

Closed hubisan closed 3 years ago

hubisan commented 4 years ago

[Update 31.08.202] Snap is not supported yet by WSL or WSL2 (only with a hack).

There is a snap (https://snapcraft.io/emacs) which lets you install emacs. Add installing with snap as installation alternative.

The following needs to be changed once this works:

* Install Emacs

You can install Emacs on the command line or when using the Ubuntu distribution
with snap.

** On Command line
...

** With snap

Snap needs to be [[https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-ubuntu][installed]] and then you can use the Emacs [[https://snapcraft.io/emacs][snap]].

Install the version you want with ([[https://snapcraft.io/emacs/embedded?button=black&channels=true][current versions]] for each):

| latest/stable    | ~sudo snap install emacs --classic~             |
| latest/candidate | ~sudo snap install emacs --candidate --classic~ |
| latest/beta      | ~sudo snap install emacs --beta --classic~      |
| latest/edge      | ~sudo snap install emacs --edge --classic~      |
hubisan commented 4 years ago

Snap is not supported yet with WSL and WSL2 (only with a hack).

hubisan commented 3 years ago

Easier to just build it from source. The snap gives me some fontcache errors with apparently others have as well (seen in a post).

And it will probably not work in WSL anyway.