How to install Proof General for Emacs on Mac? - emacs

I am new to Emacs and perhaps that is the problem but I was following the instructions here:
https://github.com/ProofGeneral/PG
in particular after I added the given lines to my .emacs file, I did (M is the alt/option key):
M-x package-refresh-contents RET
but I got the error message:
[no match]
what is going wrong?
maybe this what I am doing wrong, what does:
M-x package-refresh-contents RET followed by M-x package-install RET proof-general RET
mean?

This is what works for me (TM):
(require 'package)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
;; Bootstrap use-package
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
(package-refresh-contents)
(package-install 'use-package))
(use-package proof-general
:no-require t
:ensure t)

The line will work if you have melpa as your package source. See the answer of ejgallego:
(require 'package)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
If you add these lines to your .emacs - file and then
M-x package-refresh-contents (followed by return)
M-x package-install (followed by return and then `proof-general`)
then it will work without explicitly adding the package in your .emacs-file.

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I'm new at emacs.
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What can I do?
I suspect you just need to do this:
M-x package-refresh-contents RET
And then try installing it again.
Failing that, check that you don't already have it installed, as package-install doesn't offer to install the things you already have.

Latest ada-mode (5.1.9) does not indent on Emacs for OS X (24.5.1)

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I ran the following code:
(let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously
"http://tromey.com/elpa/package-install.el")))
(save-excursion
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(goto-char (point-min))
(re-search-forward "^$" nil 'move)
(eval-region (point) (point-max))
(kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
Use the package.el to be included with emacs24, as the ELPA version doesn't include package-archives and support for multiple repositories.
It is found here (emacs24!): http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/annotate/head:/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
Last emacs23 compatible version: http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/blob/ba08b24186711eaeb3748f3d1f23e2c2d9ed0d09:/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
Drop it into your loadpath and settle for one type of loading (that is drop the lines after the comment).