How to install melpa in emacs?

Question

I need to install MELPA into my emacs 23.3 version. I have googled for the ways to install it but couldn't find/understand any of them.

Can anyone please help me with installing MELPA. I am using ubuntu 12.04

I need MELPA to install OmniSharp which will help for autocompletion in C#

For years, to get around unhelpful sysadmins I was installing emacs from source in my home directory so that I could run the version I wanted ... or run it at all. It's easy; but you need a C compiler. — Bret Weinraub, Dec 06 '16 at 18:54

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 03 '22 at 06:56

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MELPA is actually just a repository of emacs packages. The emacs package manager has been included in emacs since version 24. For 23.3 you first need to get a compatible version of package.el (there is one here).

After putting package.el in your load-path, you then need to add MELPA to the list of repositories:

(require 'package)
;; Any add to list for package-archives (to add marmalade or melpa) goes here
(add-to-list 'package-archives 
    '("MELPA" .
      "http://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

From the EmacsWiki.

To then install OmniSharp, first refresh the package archive with M-x package-refresh-contents, then you can use M-x package-install RET omnisharp.

edited Jan 03 '22 at 06:56

Dr Sheldon

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answered Jul 28 '14 at 09:00

Yossarian

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Where do I type that code to add MELPA to the list of repositories? – Sammi3 Dec 16 '19 at 22:12
That goes in your `.emacs` – Yossarian Dec 16 '19 at 22:15
@Sammi3 I put it in my `~/.emacs.d/init.el` – ebragaparah Mar 23 '21 at 01:57

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