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Instructions of installing emacs package manager using short-emacs code are available at http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html   
Instructions of installing emacs package manager using short-emacs code are available at http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html   

Revision as of 01:23, 20 December 2012

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Installing emacs package manager

Instructions of installing emacs package manager using short-emacs code are available at http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html

Steps are:

  1. If you do not have direct connection to internet then first use "export http_proxy='<proxy>:<port>'" to specify proxy server before starting emacs from same terminal.
  2. Copy/paste following code in scratch and use Ctrl+j when cursor is at last closing parenthesis to execute code
    (let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously
    "http://tromey.com/elpa/package-install.el")))
    (save-excursion
    (set-buffer buffer)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (re-search-forward "^$" nil 'move)
    (eval-region (point) (point-max))
    (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
  3. Use 'M-x' (alt-x) followed by command 'package-list-packages' to get list of all packages that can be installed via package manager