Did you try 'apt-get install xemacs21' rather than xemacs? It appears to be in the 'universe' repository.
Hello
Does anybody know whether there exists a repository for Kubuntu which
includes XEmacs? Apt-get install XEmacs does not work in Kubuntu
vanilla.
Uwe Brauer
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