From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Problems installing downloaded ELPA tar file(s) of magit on Win7 Enterprise Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:56:25 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396012731 19766 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2014 13:18:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:18:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 14:19:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTWgW-00040u-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:19:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTWgV-0005Wa-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTWKt-0003N5-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTWKn-0001iX-Ue for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]:39363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTWKn-0001i6-2V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:56:33 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 155.55.49.12 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 8 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sb@dod.no X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on rainey.bang.priv.no) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.110.185.190 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96804 Archived-At: I have to download the .tar files from ELPA archives separately and install them locally. However, when I try M-x package-install-file I get the error message: package-read-from-string: Can't read whole string I first tried this without tar being available, so I downloaded GnuWin32 tar and copied the .exe and .dll files into emacs-24.3\bin and then tried again, but got the same error message. The only match on google, is this thread http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-11/msg00025.html and this thread doesn't have any concrete solutions, except for hinting at using CygWin tar instead of GnuWin32 tar. Does anyone know if this is fixable, and if so, how to fix it? Platform: Windows 7 Enterprise GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN Library is file c:/ProgramFiles/emacs-24.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.elc Packages tried: magit-1.2.0.tar (from marmalade) magit-20140326.1700.tar (from melpa)