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Emacs includes a facility that lets you easily download and install packages that implement additional features. Each package is a separate Emacs Lisp program, sometimes including other components such as an Info manual.
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Automatically update packages and delete old versions
(interactive)
(save-window-excursion
(list-packages)
(package-menu-mark-upgrades)
(package-menu-execute 'no-query)))
Just check which function is called by each of the steps you enumerated … Normally, the (y or n) prompts would be an issue, but package-menu-execute conveniently takes a NO-QUERY argument. …
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after-init-hook vs eval-after-load/with-eval-after-load
(with-)eval-after-load is used for things you want to do after a
package is loaded. package-initialize doesn't load the packages, it
only “prepares” them (loads their autoloads). … on the
package being loaded. …
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Why is Emacs asking me to save changed buffers, when I install a package?
It's more of a feature of the compilation process that really doesn't apply to package management but nobody has bothered to fix it yet. … And one of the steps of installing a package is to byte compile it. When this happens, Emacs will do its usual routine of asking you to save stuff, even though it doesn't really matter here. …
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Manually installing a multifile package to “elpa/”
When I'm writing a new package, it's great that I can test its
installation by just issuing M-x package-install-from-buffer. … What is the procedure for installing all .el files in the current
directory as a single multifile package? …
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Manually installing a multifile package to “elpa/”
From the NEWS file:
** package-install-from-buffer and package-install-file work on directories. This follows the same rules as installing from a .tar file, except the -pkg.el file is optional. … Just issue package-install-from-buffer from a dired buffer, or invoke package-install-file and give a directory. …
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Dependencies of installed packages
You can see what dependencies a package has by opening the *Packages* menu with M-x list-packages. Then navigate to your package of interest and hit RET. … This will display a buffer describing the package, which includes a list of dependencies. …
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"Unable to activate package" when starting Emacs
This is happening during package activation, so it's not your init file's fault. … What to do
Either
install the missing package
or delete elpy. …
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How does package.el handle changes in macros when updating?
As of
the next version, when package.el upgrades a package that has been
loaded in this session, it will reload a package after installing it. … You know you'll be affected by this if your package is about to make
use of a newly released feature of a pre-existing macro that's on another file (or another package). …
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Is there a way to use AUCTeX'S HEAD from package.el?
If you're using emacs 25 already, you can visit the directory and use package-install-from-buffer. …
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Unable to find projectile in the package list
How can I install this package?
You said you added this configuration to a file called
~/.emacs.d/package_init.el, but Emacs will do nothing to load this
file by itself. …
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Automatically move installed packages to site-lisp to benefit all user accounts
Would it help to simply set package-user-dir before installing the packages? … (setq package-user-dir "/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/elpa")
Assuming you have write access, package.el will install the packages there. …
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"Cannot open load file", "/Users/home/.emacs.d/elpa/archives/-pkg" emacs 22.1
It looks like this issue will be fixed if you delete the archives directory inside ~/.emacs.d/elpa/. You may also have problems with the archive-contents and builtin-packages directories. Just to be s …
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Package manager encoding error
Do you have a line like this in your init file?
(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
If so, try removing it.
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