Pymacs Not Starting up on Emacs24

Question

I'm using Emacs 24 and Pymacs doesn't seem to start up.

I installed pymacs from ELPA. When I write M-x pymacs-eval and give an arbitary expression, it gives me the following error:

pymacs-report-error: Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds

And I get the following message in the Pymacs buffer:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name main

Process pymacs exited abnormally with code 1

possible duplicate of [Clear steps to install pymacs with emacs 24?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17255940/clear-steps-to-install-pymacs-with-emacs-24) — Mirzhan Irkegulov, Mar 19 '14 at 05:04

Sibi · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21T09:58:02.297

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pymacs from ELPA package didn't seem to work.

Downloading and installing it manually from the github repository made it work. The ELPA package of pymacs only had Emacs lisp files on it (.el files) but the repository contained Python files too and I also ran the command of sudo python setup.py install inside it's folder.

edited Jan 21 '13 at 09:58

answered Jan 21 '13 at 05:07

Sibi

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Also you may use `el-get`, recipe pymacs.rcp (it is from github too) works https://github.com/dimitri/el-get – artscan Jan 21 '13 at 07:34

Pymacs Not Starting up on Emacs24

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