package install doesn't work

Steve Youngs steve at sxemacs.org
Thu Nov 17 16:44:35 EST 2005


* Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> writes:

  > I'm trying to do a package install as documented (manually install  
  > efs and xemacs-base, then do the rest with the package system).

  > No luck.  It connects (ftp.xemacs.org) then issues 'quote user  
  > "anonymous"'.
  > That produces the response "500 AUTH not understood".

  > Trying another ftp server produces the same failure.  So I guess efs  
  > is completely broken...


No, your ftp client is completely broken.  Tell EFS to use one that
_isn't_ a kerberos client...

  (setq efs-ftp-program-name "/path/to/sane/ftp")

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