Questions tagged [el-get]

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How do I install MELPA packages via El-Get?

The El-Get documentation says that El-Get supports package.el and the MELPA documentation shows how to use MELPA with package.el. How do I install MELPA packages using El-Get? Failed Attempt I'm using Emacs 23, so package.el is not part of Emacs. …
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packages dependence between el-get and elpa

I am try to use el-get to manage my packages because it is good to update the latest from github. But sometimes the package I want is only available in ELPA. So I use (:name :type elpa) to install them. Now my problem is: I…
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Package load problems with el-get installed emacs-jedi

I've followed these instructions with el-get to try to install emacs-jedi (and the other needed packages), but no luck. In my .emacs file, I've added the following lines: ;; .emacs ;; Load package repositories (require 'package) (add-to-list…
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el-get failed to load package

I installed help-fns+.el with el-get, but I can't find the functions with M-x. I have to explicitly add (require 'help-fns+) in my init file. Is this a issue with el-get or help-fns+.el? Here's my setting in the init file for el-get. (add-to-list…
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what is the best strategy to use el-get for emacs behind company firewall?

I am using emacs almost exclusively as text editor and IDE for multiple languages at home but would like to be able to use / share my existing emacs setup at work as well. My setup is making use of el-get, which works great when I am at home but…
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el-get waiting for "*bzr branch cedet" to complete

I already have cedet installed on emacs24. However, whenever I start emacs I get an error that el-get is installing cedet unsuccessfully. It takes a rather long time and fails somewhere in the make. Why is el-get downloading cedet that already…
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Why do I get "Error (el-get): while installing transient" when starting emacs?

I very suddenly starting experiencing a problem while loading emacs. Emacs now takes a very long time to load and when it does, I get the warnings: Generating transient.info make[1]: makeinfo: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [transient.info]…
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How to load jedi as installed with el-get?

I have followed the quick start to install jedi. el-get-list-packages shows jedi as required, but no jedi namespace is available, so that I can not run jedi:install-server. How are packages installed with el-get loaded? How can I force a load? How…
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