Installing emacs package manager

Installing emacs package manager

Instructions of installing emacs package manager using short-emacs code are available at http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html

Steps are:

1. If you do not have direct connection to internet then first use "export http_proxy='<proxy>:<port>'" to specify proxy server before starting emacs from same terminal.
2. Copy/paste following code in scratch and use Ctrl+j when cursor is at last closing parenthesis to execute code

   (let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously
   "http://tromey.com/elpa/package-install.el")))
   (save-excursion
   (set-buffer buffer)
   (goto-char (point-min))
   (re-search-forward "^$" nil 'move)
   (eval-region (point) (point-max))
   (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))

3. Use 'M-x' (alt-x) followed by command 'package-list-packages' to get list of all packages that can be installed via package manager