How do I upgrade Emacs to the current version on Ubuntu

Question

I'm an Ubuntu Linux user looking to upgrade my Emacs from version 23.1.1 to the current version (23.3 I think). I have tried all of the suggested methods of upgrading on this thread, but none of them work.

How do I go about this?

Answer 1

I build the emacs from repo. I use git mirror to keep the local copy. (one day older than the official bzr repo)

sudo apt-get install git build-essential
sudo sudo apt-get build-dep emacs

git clone git://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs
cd emacs
./autogen.sh &> log.autogen
./configure &> log.configure
make bootstrap &> log.bootstrap
sudo make install &> log.install

once in while i do git pull to catch up the repo & build again.