Manual Upgrade of Emacs for linux
To install spacemacs upgrade emacs to > 24.4
wget http://mirror.sdunix.com/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.gz
tar zxvfp emacs-24.5.tar.gz
cd emacs-24.5/
./configure
sudo yum -y install libXpm-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel openjpeg-devel openjpeg2-devel turbojpeg-devel giflib-devel libtiff-devel gnutls-devel libxml2-devel GConf2-devel dbus-devel wxGTK-devel gtk3-devel
./configure
make
sudo make install