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…

Roman Shestakov
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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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