I am growing more and more annoyed with all these system updates breaking my usual work routines. After updating Ubuntu of course my editor of choice no longer worked (Grr!).
I found this blog post for installing it:
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/08/gnu-emacs-29-1-ubuntu-ppa/#google_vignette
Thanks to Ji M!
P.S. Make sure you install emacs-gtk