Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes: It needs to have A location to get package-get-index from. however to go somewhere else I assume I have to do That would be nice yes. I have no time now but it should be trivial to make these entries button style. They can be saved using M-x customize-group RET package-get RET Note that by default package-get-remote is nil. Probably the package fetching code (but not the package-get-index code) should complain if it still is. Jan