Vin Shelton wrote: does it provide a way to download the remaining packages?

Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Hi Vin, is minitar.exe part of your install kit? If so, then package-admin-install-function-mswindows may not invoke it right: (defun package-admin-install-function-mswindows (file pkg-dir buffer) "Install function for mswindows." (let ((default-directory (file-name-as-directory pkg-dir))) (unless (file-directory-p default-directory) (make-directory default-directory t)) (call-process "minitar" nil buffer t file))) Wouldn't that mean "minitar" would have to be on the PATH? Hmmh, but I use package-admin-install-function-mswindows too[1], and it works for me. Footnotes: [1] in XEmacs 21.5 (beta23) "daikon" (+CVS-20051031) [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Tue Nov 01 2005 on TANG -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt; writes: Hello Vin, I installed this and everything went fine. But now when I am trying to install new packages, using the package interface, I get the following error. Thanks. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "minitar") start-process-internal("*call-process*" #<buffer "*Package Output*"> "minitar" "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz") apply(start-process-internal "*call-process*" #<buffer "*Package Output*"> "minitar" "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz") call-process-internal("minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz") apply(call-process-internal "minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz") call-process("minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz") package-admin-install-function-mswindows("c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz" "c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\xemacs-packages\\" #<buffer "*Package Output*">) package-admin-add-binary-package("c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz" "c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\xemacs-packages\\") byte-code("..." [latest version installed base-filename full-package-filename package package-get-info-version package-get-info-find-package package-get-info-prop package-get-key :version nil filename t package-get-info category "mule" featurep mule error invalid-state "Mule packages can't be installed with a non-Mule XEmacs" search-failed format "Couldn't find package %s with version %s" syntax-error "No download site or local package location specified." "No filename associated with package %s, version %s" package-admin-get-install-dir string-to-number warn "Installing %s package version %s, you had a newer version %s" "Skipping %s package, you have a newer version %s" throw skip-update string-match "^\\(..*\\).tar.gz$" append match-string 1 ".tgz" never package-get-installedp done (byte-code "Æ0000 «é ＠ A＠0«Û\n＠Ç !¬9ÈÉ Ê!\"!ª²Ë!«ÌÍ!8ÎÏ\"a«ªSËÐ \"!«ÑÒ \"ÆÓÔ!ÆÕÐ \"Ö#Æ«`Ë!«&×ØÆ\"Æ\nA0¬%-Æ!" [dir search-dir search-filenames full-package-filename dest-filename current-filename nil package-get-staging-dir substitute-in-file-name expand-file-name file-name-as-directory file-exists-p 7 file-attributes package-get-info size package-get-remote-filename message "Retrieving package `%s' ..." sit-for 0 copy-file t throw done host filenames package] 6) file-exists-p "Unable to find file %s" "No download sites or local package locations specified." message "Validating checksum for `%s'..." ...] 7) package-get(pcl-cvs nil nil nil) #<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5>(pcl-cvs) mapcar(#<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5> (pcl-cvs)) byte-code("..." [pui-selected-packages mapcar #<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5> t] 3) #<compiled-function nil "...(104)" [pui-selected-packages do-install tmpbuf do-delete package-admin-temp-buffer pui-deleted-packages "*Packages-To-Remove*" nil (...) message "Deleting selected packages ..." sit-for 0 mapcar #<compiled-function ... "...(7)" ... 4> "Packages deleted" "*Packages-To-Install*" (...) get-buffer-create buffer-disable-undo erase-buffer "Installing selected packages ..." done (byte-code "ÁÂx\"ÆÃ!" ... 3) pui-list-packages "Packages installed" clear-message error invalid-operation "No packages have been selected!" package-net-update-installed-db] 3 ("c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\lisp\\package-ui.elc" . 7985) nil>() call-interactively(pui-install-selected-packages) -- Surendra Singhi http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html ,---- | "War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength!" | -- Orwell, 1984, 1948 `----