AppImage is a single-file executable format for linux. This repo builds Emacs as AppImages for x86-64 linux systems.
- 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
- Release & pre-release: latest version 30.0.93
- Daily master build
- NEW! Weekly mps build: the experimental MPS GC feature from
scratch/igc
branch. This version does not supports pgtk yet.
x11
: built with X11 GUI supportpgtk
: built with PGTK GUI support, for wayland desktopnox
: built without GUI support
- Download *.AppImage
chmod +x Emacs.AppImage
./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
.
- 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