RE: How do you get the packages to load in 21.4.9 Native or Cygwin?
Setup.exe does install the packages, and it appears they work.
However, they
cannot be configured via the menu entry "Options, Advanced(customize),
You may be looking under the wrong menu. Try something like M-x customize
<ret> toolbar <ret>
to see if that works.
Emacs, Packages." Moreover, the menu item "Tools, Packages,
List and
install" doesn't work at all.
Can you define "not at all". You need to define a download site first before
using these menu items.
Setting EMACSPACKAGEPATH to "D:\cygwin\usr\local" makes
some difference.
EMACSPACKAGEPATH is already set by the installer in the windows registry.
"Tools, Packages, List and install" will load *packages*,
but there are no
installed versions, only latest versions. After selecting some packages to
install and doing "Install/Remove packages," the message "Unable to find
file <x>.tar.gz," where <x> is one of the package files
previously selected.
On the other hand, after this failed attempt to List and install, the menu
entry "Options, Advanced(customize), Emacs, Packages." does work.
List & install uses the MANIFEST entries, so it seems something fundamental
is going wrong here. This works for most people.
andy