Installing Emacs from the source

This VM I am in is a bit old and somewhow apt-get is not pulling the latest packages... so I need it to get it manually.
As many other open source software built with make: Get a release, from http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/emacs/ for example, then compile and install.

$ wget http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/emacs/emacs-24.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf emacs-24.3.tar.gz
$ cd emacs-24.3
$ less INSTALL; # Just take a glance of the install notes
$ ./configure; # Check the output is not something weird
$ make; # No errors should appear here
$ sudo make install; # Gets moved to somewhere in the PATH

If in the way perl complains about LANG, etc variables:

 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_US.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Follow instructions: Perl warning Setting locale failed in Debian

$ export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
$ sudo /usr/sbin/locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
$ sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure locales
# now choose the appropriate language from the list to generate

Finally re-run from the last step, install in this case:

$ sudo make install