[Trisquel-devel] Installing dependencies for latest emacs and gcc releases

[Heime]

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On Saturday, May 31st, 2025 at 7:54 PM, David Lecompte <trisquel at metani.fr> wrote:

> > The following package will be installed:
> > emacs-next 28.0.50-0.2ea3466
> 
> 
> I had not checked before, the latest version in Guix is 29.4, while Parabola
> has 30.1-5. For software available both in Guix and in Parabola, I have seen
> such a situation several times: Guix has much more recent version than
> Trisquel, but not as recent as Parabola.
> 
> What does "guix describe" say? For me, it is
> 
> Generation 1 May 17 2025 16:57:07 (current)
> guix 9f3d8db
> repository URL: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-mirror
> branch: master
> commit: 9f3d8dbda60bb1dd15d2956c334354947df8b3f5
> 
> 
> So I have relatively recent version (17 May 2025).
> 
> If doing your development work in a virtual machine is feasible, you could
> create a virutal machine with Parabola. I don't do any development, but on
> my laptop (with i5-1240P), it is feasible to put the display of a virtual
> machine full screen and use it as the main computer for all my tasks.
> --
> David Lecompte trisquel at metani.fr

Have finally managed to get GNU Emacs 30.0.92 with Guix Package Manager on top
of Trisquel from the help here.