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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > M-x emacs-thread
 
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Terrorforge
Dec 22, 2013

More of a furnace, really
So I just got on this bandwagon a few days ago, and I'm having trouble with packages. I wanted to install LaTeX Preview Pane (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaTeXPreviewPane), and the wiki instructed me to just add the MELPA repository and package-install the thing, but as far as I can tell Emacs just won't contact the repository. Even that's conjecture, though, because I don't even know how to check if it's properly connected. I'm using Emacs 24.5.1 on windows 7 and the relevant parts of my .emacs currently looks like this:

code:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))
(when (< emacs-major-version 24)
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))
(package-initialize)
I've tried different versions of this code, adding/removing the 's' in 'https', even tried to "manually" download package-filter.el the way MELPA's "Getting Started" page suggests just to see if it would help but it wouldn't even connect then either.

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Terrorforge
Dec 22, 2013

More of a furnace, really
Sometimes you gotta ask the stupid questions. I forgot to turn things off and on again more than I care to admit. No, I am not behind a proxy.

I got it to work, though. I found the Marmalade instructions, and for some reason M-: (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) succeeded where typing the exact same thing into .emacs failed.

e: Actually I think I might be having trouble with .emnacs itself because now it's not registering the settings I added for LaTeX Preview Pane

e2: Oh, goddammit. I was fiddling with a completely useless .emacs I put in the install directory for some reason, not the actual init file that's buried somewhere in AppData. I think I've got this now.

Terrorforge fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jan 21, 2016

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