Re: [O] Can't install org-plus-contrib from org elpa

[Kaushal Modi]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:25 PM Lawrence Bottorff <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm trying a clean install with this in my init.el

(require 'package)

(add-to-list 'package-archives

  '("melpa-stable" . "http://melpa-stable.milkbox.net/packages/"))

Not related to your question, but this link has been updated. See https://stable.melpa.org/#/getting-started

(add-to-list 'package-archives

    '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))

;; Initialize all the ELPA packages (what is installed using the packages commands)

(package-initialize)

(when (not package-archive-contents)

  (package-refresh-contents))

(package-refresh-contents) should be called every time if you tend to install package non-interactively i.e. not using M-x list-packages. You could have non-nil package-archive-contents but that value could be stale. This could be the problem.

 

(defvar my-packages

  '(;; org mode

    org

    ;; org mode plus contrib

    org-plus-contrib))

Also not related to the problem, you do not need both org and org-plus-contrib. Just org-plus-contrib will suffice. See http://orgmode.org/elpa.html

 

(dolist (p my-packages)

  (when (not (package-installed-p p))

    (package-install p)))

eval-buffer-ing this gives

package-compute-transaction: Package ‘org-plus-contrib-’ is unavailable

It's as if it's looking for a specific org-plus-contrib-xxxx.tar ? Never had this problem before.

Call package-refresh-contents unconditionally. That should fix the problem. 

LB

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Kaushal Modi