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From: Martin Stemplinger <mstemplinger@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Installing Orgmode through ELPA-tarball
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:40:46 +0100
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To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
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Hi all,

being curious I tried the upgrade via ELPA but for for some reasons it
didn't work. Any ideas?

>    2. Use the Emacs package manager's =M-x list-packages= to browse
>       and install the latest version.

Failed with the error message: Failed to download `Orgmode' archive.

> ** How do I install Orgmode from a ELPA-compatible tarball?
> # <<Installing from ELPA-tar>>
>    
>    2. Download the latest tarball from [[http://orgmode.org/pkg/daily/][Orgmode repo]].
>    3. Do =M-x package-install-file=. When prompted for =Package file
>       name=, point it to .tar file downloaded in step 2.
>
Failed with the error message: package-read-from-string: Can't read whole string
       
Martin