bbatsov/emacs-prelude — Issue #59: Package installation failing
Author: prakashk
Created: 2012-02-03 04:16:00+00:00
State: open

I am running Ubuntu Natty. I installed emacs24 from the luanchpad PPA (https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs).

Starting emacs24 with:

$ emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.d/emacs-prelude/init.el

This fails with the following messages.

Emacs Prelude is powering up. Be patient, Master.
Emacs Prelude is now refreshing its package database...
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
Failed to download `gnu' archive.
Contacting host: marmalade-repo.org:80
Failed to download `marmalade' archive.
done.
package-install: Package `auctex' is not available for installation

I am able to fetch http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents manually.

When I comment the line `(require 'prelude-packages)` in `init.el`, I got a few notifications from `el-get` and a blank window. Restarting emacs after that I get the message:

Emacs Prelude is powering up. Be patient, Master.
load-theme: Unable to find theme file for `zenburn'

Am I missing something?