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Installation instructions are missing crucial context

Open dhdaines opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

The installation instructions say to add use-package to your .emacs. This neglects to mention that before you do this, you actually have to have:

  • Enabled MELPA (following these instructions: https://melpa.org/#/getting-started)
  • Run package-refresh-contents
  • Installed use-package

Otherwise, you will get all manner of cryptic Lispy error messages.

At least on Ubuntu 22.04, these things are not done for you when you install Emacs.

dhdaines avatar Oct 07 '22 12:10 dhdaines

Thanks, i hit the same problem, and this solved it (MacOS).

sboisen avatar Oct 20 '22 01:10 sboisen

Right under the installation code snippet with use-package there is a link to other methods of installation which show the melpa way. I do agree that perhaps showing use-package as the default installation method might not be the best for those who don't know about the package.

gopar avatar Oct 20 '22 02:10 gopar

Yes, but the issue is that in order to use use-package, you have to first install use-package with MELPA, and unless you know this already, well.. you don't know this already.

dhdaines avatar Oct 20 '22 02:10 dhdaines