|--==> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <simon(a)josefsson.org> writes:
SJ> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>Please let me know if anything goes belly up.
SJ> I still can't use the package system (see
<ilun1csj4h6.fsf(a)josefsson.org>).
SJ> To summarize:
SJ> Selecting "Updating packge index" results in:
SJ> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
SJ> file-name-directory(nil)
[...]
SJ> and selecting "Update installed packages" result in:
SJ> (~jas/.xemacs/ does not exist and I don't want to create it either):
SJ> Signaling: (error "/home/jas/.xemacs/ is not a directory")
[...]
Where do you put your init.el (the old .emacs)? Perhaps if you set
'user-init-directory' to that location?
And then:
cp /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.2-b44/etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp
~/your/init/directory/
Does that help?
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