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. I
installed package.el
using El-Get, but I'm not sure how to make
El-Get aware of MELPA. I tried adding
;; Based on http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/getting-started .
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
;; The 't' means to append, so that MELPA comes after the more
;; stable ELPA archive.
'("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
;; Add ELPA if necessary. Looking at the El-Get package.rcp recipe in
;; ~/local/opt/el-get/recipes it seems this is probably unnecessary.
(when (< emacs-major-version 24)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))
(package-initialize)
to my init-package.el
which is sourced by El-Get, but I still don't
see the MELPA packages in El-Get (e.g. with M-x el-get-list-packages
).
Update
I added
(require 'el-get-elpa)
;; Build the El-Get copy of the package.el packages if we have not
;; built it before. Will have to look into updating later ...
(unless (file-directory-p el-get-recipe-path-elpa)
(el-get-elpa-build-local-recipes))
to my init-package.el
as suggested in the accepted answer and now everything works.