Some of spacemacs dependencies (like helm-projectile) now require an emacs version >25.x

This could be a problem especially since Ubuntu 16.04 comes with version 24.4.

• Easiest way to install new version of emacs i found to be downloading the release you'd like from any GNU Mirror(preferrably >25.3 ) found here:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#gnu-linux

  Just click the nearby GNU mirror link and download the tar file with the version you'd like. In my case emacs-25.3.tar.gz

• Then open a terminal (ctrl + alt + t) and run:

  tar xvf emacs-25.3.tar.gz /your/path/emacs-25.3
  cd /your/path/emacs-25.3
  chmod +x configure
  ./configure

  Now, after running the configure shell script successfully without errors, a makefile will be generated.

• IN CASE of errors running ./configure

  There's a chance that errors will pop out saying that packages like libXpm, libgif, libjpeg, libtiff cannot be found. In that case run in your terminal:

  sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev
  sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
  sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev
  sudo apt-get install libgif7-dev
  sudo apt install libpng16-dev
  sudo apt install libxaw7-dev

  for the packages that you are missing.
  In short, Packages with the "-dev" suffix are headers needed for other software to use these libraries.

  Also make sure you have GTKTerm installed.

  sudo apt-get install gtkterm

• After you have successfully ran ./configure run:

  make
  make install

  Now you should have installed emacs properly.

Steps for Installing spacemacs are written more concisely here: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs.

• Make a backup of your existing emacs configuration (if you have any):

  cd ~
  mv .emacs.d .emacs.d.bak
  mv .emacs .emacs.bak

• Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

Now spacemacs is ready to be used although you most likely will need Source Code Pro Pro fonts.

Easiest way to install Space Code Pro system wide is through npm, if you don't have it already you can get it Here.

• After installing npm run in your terminal the following:

   npm install git://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.git#release --global

Now hopefully you should be ready to use spacemacs to it's full potential.

Feel free to post any issues regarding these instructions.