El-get
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
| Description | Package Manager |
|---|---|
| Author | name of author |
| Maintainer | Dimitri Fontaine |
| Source | https://github.com/dimitri/el-get |
| Part of Emacs | no |
el-get is a popular package manager for Emacs written by Dimitri Fontaine. El-get supports many different back ends. The differs with other package managers by not having a central repository for the archival of packages. Instead it uses recipe files which are simply contains pointers to the sources and installation methods.
Installation
Add the following into your ~/.emacs :
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")
(unless (require 'el-get nil t)
(url-retrieve
"https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el"
(lambda (s)
(end-of-buffer)
(eval-print-last-sexp))))
and execute it : M-x eval-current-buffer. This code will check if el-get is already installed, and if not will do so through git (so you need git : apt-get install git).
Basic Setup
Useful Functions
See also
package.el aka ELPA, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive.