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ELPA stands for Emacs Lisp Package Archive a simple package manager for Emacs, and a repository of pre-packed Emacs Lisp code.

ELPA stands for Emacs Lisp Package Archive a simple package manager for Emacs, and a repository of pre-packed Emacs Lisp code. You can access the repository at: http://elpa.gnu.org/. For more information, please refer: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ELPA

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Updating packages in Emacs

I have the following setup for packages (not sure if there is a better recommended one): (require 'package) (setq package-archives '(("ELPA" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/") ("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") …
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How to rebuild ELPA packages after upgrade of Emacs

I just upgraded GNU Emacs from 23 to 24 on MacOS and some ELPA installed packages stopped working. One of them is AucTeX. Deleting it and reinstalling it through the package manager made it work again, but I don't want to do this by hand for every…
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Emacs behind HTTP proxy

Emacs is able to access the Internet with packages such as url.el or the W3 web browser. Also, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive is heavily dependent on package url.el. Now, how do I configure Emacs to use my HTTP proxy to connect to the Internet in…
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Error updating emacs packages: Failed to download 'gnu' archive

My init.el uses this to initialize packages: (package-initialize) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")) (add-to-list…
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Use ELPA (Emacs) behind a proxy requiring authentication

I have read this and this question. In both they say Emacs can deal with authentication, but it does not work for me. The question is: What is wrong? The Emacs version is 24.0.97-1, and it is running on 64-bit Linux. At work I have to use proxy…
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package-refresh-contents hangs at Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80

I'm running Emacs 24.4 for Windows (installed through Chocolatey) and trying to install CIDER. When I run M-x package-install [RET] cider [RET], I get [No match]. When I run M-x package-refresh-contents [RET], it hangs on Contacting host:…
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Adding Marmalade as Package Source

I'm trying to add Marmalade as a package source, but when I do so I get the error:Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives. Anyone know how to resolve this? Below is my .emacs file. ;;; This was installed by package-install.el. ;;; This…
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js2-refactor from melpa: Package `emacs-24.1' is unavailable

I'm on GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.0), but when I try to use package (melpa) to install js2-refactor I get this odd error: package-compute-transaction: Package `emacs-24.1' is unavailable Any ideas what this could be…
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Is it possible to downgrade packages installed with ELPA?

I updated today my packages in emacs with ELPA and after the update I'm stuck with the Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size error. Since it is not easy to debug, is it possible to downgrade the packages that were updated? Where can I…
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Emacs: list-packages [no match]

I'm new to Emacs. I'd like to install a package, but doing M-x package-install says there is no such command. Trying to look which packages are installed with M-x list-packages does not work either. GNU Emacs manual does not say much about it (or I…
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Is there a way to install ELPA packages from command line?

I'm interested in standardizing the emacs configurations that a few of us use (~5 people). Is there a way to install ELPA packages from lisp functions that can be included in a script if we know the set of packages we want? All I can find is how to…
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How do I automatically (re)compile ELPA packages?

I'm now installing as much as I can through MELPA and Marmalade, and I manage my ~/.emacs.d using git. However, I have git ignore *.elc files. This means that when I install a package on one system and then start using another system, git pull only…
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Installed Emacs evil. How do I start it?

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try emacs + evil. Here's what I've done so far: Installed emacs 24 on Windows 7 -- went well Created an .emacs file in C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\ (where .emacs.d ended up) Added the following to that .emacs…
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How do I configure Emacs behind an authenticated HTTP proxy?

There's another question that answers this though it doesn't specify anything regarding proxy authentication. Its solution is (setq url-proxy-services '(("no_proxy" . "work\\.com") ("http" . "proxy.work.com:911")))
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Emacs (Cocoa Emacs) vs Aquamacs for running Clojure on Mac OS X

I used Aquamacs so far, and I need to install and run Clojure using SLIME. I googled to get some way to use Clojure on SLIME of Aquamacs, but without success. Questions Is it possible to install Clojure on Aquamacs? Or, can you guess why Clojure…
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