use-package with ox-latex

use-package with ox-latex

[Dushyant Juneja]

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Hi all,

I was trying to wrap ox-latex in a use-package configuration. My
use-package statement is super simple:

(use-package ox-latex
:defer t)

However, emacs cribs on this at startup as follows:

package-compute-transaction: Package ‘ox-latex-’ is unavailable

Any ideas of what could be going wrong here? I have seen many people use
use-package for ox-latex, so I do not understand why this should happen now.

As an initial check, I did see that ox-latex is not available as a package
in package-list-packages output. It is available via find-library command
in my org-installation, though.

Thanks for the help in advance!

Dushyant

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Re: use-package with ox-latex

[Stig Brautaset]

Dushyant Juneja <juneja.dushyant@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to wrap ox-latex in a use-package configuration. My
> use-package statement is super simple:
>
> (use-package ox-latex
> :defer t)

ox-latex is part of org, which ships with Emacs. You should be able to
just use:

,----
| (require 'ox-latex)
`----

Alternatively:

,----
| (use-package org
|   :config
|   (require 'ox-latex))
`----

Finally, if you prefer org-plus-contrib you can do:

,----
| (use-package org
|   :ensure org-plus-contrib
|   :config
|   (require 'ox-latex))
`----

Hope this helps!

Stig

Re: use-package with ox-latex

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 8:02 AM Dushyant Juneja <juneja.dushyant@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to wrap ox-latex in a use-package configuration. My
> use-package statement is super simple:
>
> (use-package ox-latex
> :defer t)
>
> However, emacs cribs on this at startup as follows:
>
> package-compute-transaction: Package ‘ox-latex-’ is unavailable
>

Looks like use-package is trying to "install" an ox-latex package. Do you
have the defcustom use-package-always-ensure set to a non-nil value?

I have that defcustom set to the default value of nil and the org setup
organization as below:

(use-package org
  ;; snip
  :mode ("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)
  :config
  (progn
    ;; snip
    (use-package ox
      :defer t
      :config
      (progn
        ;; snip
        (use-package ox-latex
          :config
          (progn
            ;; snip
            ))))))

That way, the ox package and the nested ox-latex, etc. are not required
until I export any org document for the first time.

Full org setup as of today:
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/6d8d0073d92f8dc118e84385c5274f810062a92f/setup-files/setup-org.el
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Kaushal Modi

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