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This is how I attempted to install the package:

I ran the command list-packages and then tried to install the auctex package in package mode. This was the line showing auctex entry in package mode:

  auctex             11.88.2      available  gnu        Integrated environment for *TeX*

Now when I try to install that, I get this message:

package--check-signature: Failed to verify signature auctex-11.88.2.tar.sig: ("Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent ")

How do I fix this ? Any other method to install auctex is also welcome.

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  • In addition to ELPA and source code, you can also install it via your OS's package manager if possible. – xuchunyang Mar 16 '15 at 12:25
  • When I have trouble installing from list-packages, the first thing I try is to start emacs fresh with a minimal version of my init file. Sometimes there are conflicts with active packages... but I have no idea if that's what this error could be from. – Brian Z Mar 16 '15 at 12:30
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    That looks like a serious problem that should be reported via M-x report-emacs-bug. – Stefan Mar 16 '15 at 12:42
  • Do you have the following line in your .emacs? (setq-default coding-system-for-read 'utf-8) If so, try removing it, restarting emacs and installing the package. It seems there is some problem with gnupg, package.el and emacs when coding system is set to utf8. – Iakov Davydov Oct 10 '17 at 15:27
  • If you can reproduce the problem, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug, because it really should not happen. – Stefan Sep 2 '18 at 21:01
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I just installed it from source:

  1. get the source code: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download.html

  2. build:

    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auctex --with-lispdir=$HOME/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auctex --with-texmf-dir=$HOME/.local/lib/texmf
make
make install

    (this builds auctex for a user and doesn't require superuser privilages)

  3. load to emacs:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auctex")
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)

That's it: calling M-x latex-mode then loads auctex.

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  • Thanks, just curious to know if package-mode method worked for you ? – Sibi Mar 16 '15 at 12:25
  • Last time I had been installing auctex (about 2 years ago) it has been working. In that time I used package-install specially to test the system. Currently I'm not using package-install and prefer to install el libraries from source. – Adobe Mar 16 '15 at 12:29
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On a Debian-based linux system I used

sudo apt-get install auctex

at the command prompt in a terminal and that did the necessary. This should work on Ubuntu and other Debian based linux systems.

Of course, I had previously used 

sudo apt-get install emacs

I know that this is a late answer, but here just in case it might help someone as

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