emacs24-common software package provides GNU Emacs editors shared, architecture independent infrastructure, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install emacs24-common
emacs24-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emacs24-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emacs24-common *
You will get with emacs24-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Editors |
| Package | emacs24-common |
| Version | 24.5+1-6ubuntu1 |
| Description | GNU Emacs editors shared, architecture independent infrastructure |
| Sub Section | Editors |