for questions about repositories of Emacs packages on well-known servers, such as MELPA, GNU ELPA, and Marmalade. Emacs uses library package.el to download and install updates to packages you choose.
MELPA is a collection of package.el-compatible emacs Lisp packages that are built automatically on the server from upstream source code locations.
The main features of MELPA are
- Up-to-date packages
- Installable in any recent Emacs using "package.el"
- Curated
- Comprehensive
- Automatic updates
- Extensible
Configure Emacs init file to download from MELPA. For Emacs versions 24 and prior, add the GNU ELPA archive to the repositories list because it provides cl-lib and other needed libraries. For Emacs versions 24 and later, these libraries are included by default.
See the packages section of the manual for details.
