Re: ELPA

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all your work. I would like to see ebdb as part
>> of built-in packages. But since it is in ELPA, that is
>> also okay.
>
> What is that, like ~/.mailrc ?

It's a port/rewrite of BBDB, so it's full-blown contact management, not
just mail completion.

> As for ELPA... this has happened to me for as long as
> I can remember.
>
>   Packages that can be upgraded: 11; type ‘U’ to mark
>   for upgrading.
>   
>   (hit U)
>   
>   package-menu--mark-upgrades-1: Wrong type argument:
>   package-desc, nil
>
> Also... can you do it without having to do this

I don't think either of these things should be happening. Do you have
something like this in your init file?

(require 'package)
(setq package-archives
      '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
	("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
	("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")))

(tbh even the `require' might not be necessary)

With that, all the load paths should be set correctly. And I wouldn't be
surprised if the earlier error would be resolved as well.