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Getting error "Failed to download 'gnu' archive" on Emacs 26.3
I'm currently using Ubuntu 18.04, and trying out Emacs for the first time. However, whenever I run the command package-refresh-contents, I get the the follow error:
Failed to download 'gnu' archive
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How do I set package-vc-selected-packages to use a specific commit?
Emacs 29.1 introduced new functions to install packages directly from source.
Configuring it to download from the latest commit works fine, but I can't find how to download from a specific commit ...
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how do I install emacs packages from the command line?
I'm attempting to automate deployment of my different machines by scripting installation of emacs and emacs packages. While I realize that I can set up my .emacs file to automatically install packages ...
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Can not connect to a package archive?
I was trying to install beacon and got this error,
package--check-signature-content: Failed to verify signature: "seq-2.20.tar.sig"
Before installing, I ran package-refresh-content which gave an ...
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Debugging "Package lacks a file header"
I'm playing around with developing and publishing an Emacs package, very simple stuff, just trying things out before I commit to a bigger project. The problem that I'm having is that after I've made a ...
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AUCTeX is obsolete on GNU ELPA?
I got this warning when installing AUCTeX from GNU ELPA. The package is installed, but I don't want to use obsolete packages for obvious reasons. I have check the official website of AUCTeX, and it ...
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Fresh install 24.5 on Windows 10 bash shell Linux 16.04 crashing on package manager
Fairly new to emacs, seemed super awesome for writing a lot of different styles. Got it working just fine on my desktop using the new bash terminal - 14.04 - on my desktop.
Did the exact same setup ...
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Use system-installed package with spacemacs that depends on MELPA packages
How can I include a package that is available locally on my system that depends on the string library s with spacemacs?
I have an company internal package that adds functionality to magit available ...
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Can't install elm-mode using MELPA
I'm trying to install elm-mode using MELPA. When I try to install it I get an error message:
https://melpa.org/packages/dash-20150829.433.el: Not found
I can install other things, bu not this.
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list-packages says certificate has expired. What I need to do?
I have not used Emacs for about six months. Today I tried to use M-x list-packages and there is an error, although I remember that there was no such error before:
I use Emacs 27.1 on 32-bit Windows 7,...
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Disable package refreshing when starting emacs
I have bad internet connection. Starting spacemacs takes a long time because of the "refreshing package archive melpa or gnu or others...". or "installing package: ...".
When i ...
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How to make list-packages Help for dependency package show the dependee packages?
I use use-package to require the boxquote package into my GNU Emacs 26.3 running on Ubuntu 19.10, like this:
(use-package boxquote
:ensure t)
In the list-packages buffer, I see the boxquote ...
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MELPA no longer works: error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing
MELPA no longer updates after no changes of mine. With a minimal .emacs of
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-...
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Are there any lisp projects like jazz band?
I was curious is there anything like https://jazzband.co/ but for emacs lisp where you can submit packages so that they can be submitted / maintained by a group rather than an individual ?
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How to list all the packages installed from source
Is there a way to list all the packages originally installed via package-install-file?
Looking at the results of package-list-packages, it doesn't differentiate between different installation methods....
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Accidentally deleted Ivy. Now what?
I went to M-x list-packages and accidentally deleted Ivy.
How do I get it back in M-x list packages now?
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melpa won't load on emacs windows
I am using emacs on windows 7. Emacs is located on a usb on a university computer with no admin access but correctly loads the .emacs file. In my .emacs file I have
(custom-set-variables
'(package-...
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Adding package from non-standard ELPA Repository to Layer
So I have a package I would like to add from an ELPA repository different than MELPA. The repository is called "billpiel" and the link is http://billpiel.com/emacs-packages/. I would like to add the ...
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Install magit package failed to verify signature seq-2.24.tar.sig
New emacs user here. Trying to install magit, I ran into signature issues.
I followed the instructions from https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/53142 and successfully installed gnu-elpa-keyring-update ...
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Elpaca: problems with eglot version and flymake
I am using elpaca as my package manager. When I try to install flymake, using the use-package compatibility, I am getting the following error:
eldoc installed version (1 13 0) lower than min required ...
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How to stop emacs from contacting melpa?
I have the following in my config:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" ...
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How to setup proxy in Emacs which rquires authentification to download packages from melpa?
I try to setup a corporate proxy in Emacs:
in Bash I've setup the following environment variables:
export http_proxy="http://my_login:[email protected]:8080";export https_proxy="http:...
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Problems enabling pdf-tools continuous-scroll with quelpa
My goal is to use org-pdftools as described in this blogpost. I started by trying to make pdf-tools work with continuous scrolling, but I'm running into various problems. It is getting way complicated ...
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Themes and other options not loading from MELPA
While following a tutorial on editing python using Emacs (https://realpython.com/emacs-the-best-python-editor/) I've been unable to install better-defaults, line numbers and any themes or return to ...
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Failed to download ‘melpa-stable’ archive. GnuTLS : Contacting host: 443
I am trying to install packages/modes from melpa on my emacs27.1, but I am unable to do so. If I run M-x package-refresh-contents , I get the following error :
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
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Packages are broken
Almost any time I try to use packages, they fail for one reason or another. I did
manage to install a package some time last year (2020) but not since.
The marmalade-repo.org has had a bad certificate ...
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Cannot load some modes via elpa
Some of my major modes, installed via ELPA, error during load as, for instance for markdown-mode,
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or ...
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show which package repo was used to obtain a package
I'm trying to submit a bug report to emacs-evil, and they ask me from which repo evil was installed.
I'm just using the version that came bundled with doom-emacs.
How can I know which source was used ...
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Incompatible Packages w/ 26.3 and MELPA
I know I must be missing something simple, but I've recently upgraded my Linux OS to Mate 20.04. As a result, my version of emacs is Emacs 26.3. I'm now running into incompatibility issues with MELPA ...
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Right way of accessing MELPA repository
I am working on Debian 10 with Emacs installed from official Debian repositories (ver 1:26.1+1-3.2)
and
using the following code I cannot connect to synchronize packages available on MELPA:
Here's my ...
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Testing a package before submitting to Melpa
I'm going through the instructions at https://github.com/melpa/melpa/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.org to submit a package to Melpa. I would like to test to see if my recipe installs the package properly ...
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Melpa package update question
Last year I created a package for Melpa. I have updated it in my Gitlab repo, but I don't know how to make Melpa aware of that.
Thanks in advance for any tips on that.
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Unable to install a package
I am trying to add Magit to Emacs package list.
I got as far as "Packages" menu and do not see how to add new, unlisted package. Is it even possible from Emacs ?
I even tried to "i-install" ...
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Error on package-list-packages
I've started to get the following errors when running package-list-packages. Searching online hasn't come up with anything. If anyone can suggest a cause and/or a solution I'd be very grateful.
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How to override spacemacs package to use new ELPA version instead of pinned version
I'd like to use csv-mode 1.7 from ELPA, but spacemacs (develop branch) wants to use the pinned version spacemacs/.cache/stable-elpa/25.1.1/spacelpa-0.300/csv-mode-1.6.el (even if I delete that file ...
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Cannot load markdown-mode
Problem
I've recently switched to NixOS and I'm having a couple of problems with my init.el. One I think is NixOS related and so I won't elaborate here, but I can't think of any NixOS component to ...
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How to get path to library installed through elpa
I have Emacs installed on multiple machines, and every time I install yasnippet through elpa. As it's version changes, it is being installed into different directories. For example:
#first machine
~/....
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Pinning version of a "core" package
How can I pin a version of "smartparens". I thought If I add this to dotspacemacs-additional-packages:
(smartparens :location
(recipe :fetcher github
:repo "Fuco1/smartparens"
...
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Uploading a package to melpa
I like sqlplus package on emacs.
It works perfect when I use oracle dbms, however,
my company uses Tibero, which is not available on melpa repository.
I would like to write a melpa package for this ...
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How can I install from GNU ELPA?
I'm trying to install cursor-undo on GNU ELPA, I just get:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Could not find package cursor-undo. Updating recip...")
error("Could not find package %...
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How to translate the fork keyword from straight.el to a melpa recipe?
Given the straight.el snippet below, I'm unable to make sense of the fork keyword in context of the melpa manual.
How should I translate this snippet in order to use-package install it, without ...
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Melpa packages not loading
My init.el file looks like this:
(require 'package)
'(package-archives
'(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t
("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/&...
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package-install RET doom-themes RET no match
I want to install a theme library, the package is already installed but emacs does not recognize it. I have already installed the melpa packages and the gnu packages, as shown in the code below:
(add-...
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"Package `elpy-' is unavailable with GNU Emacs 27.1 on Ubuntu 22.04
A couple of weeks ago I did a re-install of my Ubuntu and now I'm running into issues with my init file. See screenshot below.
I'm quite puzzled, probably something trivial, but I'm missing it ...
I'...
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Unable to install packages due to run-hooks error
I'm getting a strange error when installing packages using package-install.
I haven't really updated anything in my configs but package installation suddenly stopped working. Any pointers or ...
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Dash library is installed but does not work
Dash appears to be installed (it shows as status "dependency") but I cannot use it:
(-sum '(1 2 3))
==> progn: Symbol’s function definition is void: -sum
I tried to delete and reinstall ...
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How to edit source code from elpa package and keep changes?
So today I installed a dashboard for emacs with M-x package-install RET dashboard. It works perfectly fine. I made some nice customization and it looks great!
But by default, there are some messages (...
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Prevent emacs from calling melpa/updating on startup
This is already the 2nd time I can't start emacs as one single package on a server can't be found.
My current configuration works fine and I'd rather have a reliable system than one that is always up ...
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How to install and setup lsp servers for vanilla emacs
I wanted to install lsp-servers in emacs to allow my transition from VS-Code easier, however, when I tried to install lsp-mode from MELPA, I got the following issue:
https://melpa.org/packages/...
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Error while verifying signature archive-contents.sig: error and ı can not install gnu-elpa-keyring-update
ı am using emacs 28.2 in manjaro linux and ı got error like this Error while verifying signature archive-contents.sig: when ı install jedi with M-x shortcut
ı am looking at to this url How to proceed ...
