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Re: Problems installing downloaded ELPA tar file(s) of magit on Win7 Ent
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Steinar Bang |
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Re: Problems installing downloaded ELPA tar file(s) of magit on Win7 Enterprise |
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Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:59:07 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
> I have to download the .tar files from ELPA archives separately and
> install them locally.
> However, when I try
> M-x package-install-file
> I get the error message:
> package-read-from-string: Can't read whole string
It was my own mistake: I didn't pay attention when installing GnuWin32
tar, so it ended up in a different place than the other GnuWin32
executables, and weren't copied into the emacs-24.3\bin directory with
the rest.
Once I had copied the GnuWin32 tar.exe file to the emacs-24.3\bin
directory, elpa packages installed without problems.