On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > Has anyone installed Emacs entirely to their home directory? I've got a > website and shell on bluehost.com and they run RH servers. I use bluehost and have had good success compiling things there. I've never tried to install Emacs, but can't you just download the source and do a ./configure && make && make install? ./configure probably has a flag that lets you specify a destination directory. If it doesn't you might be able to run it from the directory it builds it in. -- Michael Moore