How to Port Setup to Different OS?

How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Ari King]

I've installed and configured Emacs with various ELPA, MELPA, Marmalade packages on Ubuntu. I'd like to take this setup and re-use it with Emacs on Windows. Is there a way for me to have emacs automatically install the packages rather than manually selecting them via the package manager? Thanks.

-Ari

Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Grant Rettke]

https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

and

https://github.com/cask/cask

are two great options.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Ari King <ari.brandeis.king@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed and configured Emacs with various ELPA, MELPA, Marmalade packages on Ubuntu. I'd like to take this setup and re-use it with Emacs on Windows. Is there a way for me to have emacs automatically install the packages rather than manually selecting them via the package manager? Thanks.
>
> -Ari



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Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[John Mastro]

 Ari King <ari.brandeis.king@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed and configured Emacs with various ELPA, MELPA,
> Marmalade packages on Ubuntu. I'd like to take this setup and re-use
> it with Emacs on Windows. Is there a way for me to have emacs
> automatically install the packages rather than manually selecting them
> via the package manager? Thanks.

I just put something like the following in my init file. You have to
list the packages explicitly, but you'd probably need to do that anyway.

    (require 'package)

    (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))

    (package-initialize)

    (let* ((packages '(some-mode
                       some-other-mode
                       and-so-on))
           (needed (cl-loop for pkg in packages
                            unless (package-installed-p pkg) collect pkg)))
      (when needed
        (package-refresh-contents)
        (mapc #'package-install needed)))

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Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Steven Knight]

Hello Ari,

I suggest use-package[1].  Here's how you would use it:

; require package, update 'package-archives
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
               '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-refresh-contents)
(package-initialize)

; install use-package if necessary
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
   (package-install 'use-package))

; load use-package
(require 'use-package)

; install (if necessary) dash, better-defaults and web-mode
(use-package dash :ensure dash)
(use-package better-defaults :ensure better-defaults)
(use-package web-mode :ensure web-mode)

The ":ensure" option tells use-package to install the package if 
necessary [2].

Thank you,

[1] https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
[2] https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#for-packageel-users


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On Wed 05 Nov 2014 01:39:32 PM EST, Ari King 
<ari.brandeis.king@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed and configured Emacs with various ELPA, MELPA, Marmalade packages on Ubuntu. I'd like to take this setup and re-use it with Emacs on Windows. Is there a way for me to have emacs automatically install the packages rather than manually selecting them via the package manager? Thanks.
>
> -Ari
>

Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Alexis]

Grant Rettke writes:

> https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/cask/cask
>
> are two great options.

And, further to the Cask option:

https://github.com/rdallasgray/pallet


Alexis.

Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Jorge Araya Navarro]

I actually generate a list of packages using a Python script inside a org source code block, resulting in a
.el file that is later loaded by Emacs.

You can take a look at my conf here[1], and the resulting file here[2]

I use this to same some time making my list of dependencies.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/shackra/.emacs.d/src/c70ac0056202654c21ecf102ab6a1bbb9a103a5a/emacs-init.org?at=master#cl-91
[2]: https://bitbucket.org/shackra/.emacs.d/src/c70ac0056202654c21ecf102ab6a1bbb9a103a5a/paquetes.el?at=master

Steven Knight writes:

> Hello Ari,
>
> I suggest use-package[1].  Here's how you would use it:
>
> ; require package, update 'package-archives
> (require 'package)
> (add-to-list 'package-archives
>                '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
> (package-refresh-contents)
> (package-initialize)
>
> ; install use-package if necessary
> (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
>    (package-install 'use-package))
>
> ; load use-package
> (require 'use-package)
>
> ; install (if necessary) dash, better-defaults and web-mode
> (use-package dash :ensure dash)
> (use-package better-defaults :ensure better-defaults)
> (use-package web-mode :ensure web-mode)
>
> The ":ensure" option tells use-package to install the package if 
> necessary [2].
>
> Thank you,
>
> [1] https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
> [2] https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#for-packageel-users

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Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Grant Rettke]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Jorge Araya Navarro
<elcorreo@deshackra.com> wrote:
> I actually generate a list of packages using a Python script inside a org source code block, resulting in a
> .el file that is later loaded by Emacs.

We ought to start a sub-list for org based Emacs configuration; they
are always interesting.

Re: How to Port Setup to Different OS?

[Jorge Araya Navarro]

Grant Rettke writes:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Jorge Araya Navarro
> <elcorreo@deshackra.com> wrote:
>> I actually generate a list of packages using a Python script inside a org source code block, resulting in a
>> .el file that is later loaded by Emacs.
>
> We ought to start a sub-list for org based Emacs configuration; they
> are always interesting.

Indeed ;)

-- 
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ES: Diseñador Publicitario, Programador Python y colaborador en Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
EN: Ads Designer, Python programmer and contributor Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
EO: Anonco grafikisto, Pitino programalingvo programisto kai kontribuanto en Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
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