I'm using Gnu Emacs on OSX, Windows, and Linux. Is there some command which can download and install packages (or .el files) automatically? I've seen there are some work-in-progress projects on the internet (after googling) but I was wondering if I was missing some awesome package manager out there that just works.
Yes, the Emacs development mailing list has a long discussion regarding integrating a package manager package.el into the next major release of Emacs: Integrating package.el. It automatically downloads and installs packages from the ELPA (Emacs Lisp Package Archive. Read the installation page to obtain the latest.
You could also try el-get. I handles installation of packages from ELPA, git, and apt-get among others.
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I am try to use el-get to manage my packages because it is good to update the latest from github. But sometimes the package I want is only available in ELPA. So I use
(:name <package_name> :type elpa)
to install them.
Now my problem is:
I installed org-mode with el-get and try to install org-gcal by
(:name org-gcal :type elpa)
The "org-gcal" depends on org-mode 8.2.4 which I already have under el-get directory, but it still said it can't find it and will install org from elpa again.
How could I solve this kind of dependence problem between elpa and el-get?
You can't “solve” this dependency problem in that you could teach ELPA about el-get packages. That's not (easily) possible.
el-get understands ELPA packages, but not vice versa. ELPA does not see el-get packages, and hence cannot use them to resolve package dependencies.
The only reasonable way out is to use ELPA to install Org, and other packages as well. Recent Org releases are available from the default GNU ELPA archive or from Org Mode's package archive. The popular MELPA archive provides VCS snapshots for over 1000 other packages.
I haven't found one to install Eclipse 4.2 Juno. Default Ubuntu repositories (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04) suggest me the archaic Galileo version. And I found the Eclipse's page on Launchpad which was updated in 2009.
I can, of course, simply download the archive with all the files from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/, but that's not Debian way, is it? I mean, no automatic updates and other aptitude-managed cool things.
So, is there any repository that maintains the most recent version of Eclipse?
I think it is unlikely that you will find a newer package for Lucid. People tend to create packages for newer versions of Ubuntu.
If it's not possible to upgrade Ubuntu, what you could try is to make your own package but you would still not get automatic upgrades. From a quick look, it looks like that Juno needs some libraries to build that could be newer than the versions you have in your system, so this may end up being quite difficult. It could possibly be the reason why it is not available for Lucid in the first place.
If Juno works in your system, the quick and dirty solution is to first create a temporary folder, e.g. eclipse_3.8.0 and then do the following:
mkdir /path/to/eclipse_3.8.0/DEBIAN
mkdir /path/to/eclipse_3.8.0/opt
tar xzvf eclipse-juno.tar.gz -C /path/to/eclipse_3.8.0/opt
dpkg-deb -b --no-check /path/to/eclipse_3.8.0
This will create a deb package that installs eclipse in /opt/eclipse. You may want to put a control file inside the DEBIAN folder to add a description, dependencies, etc.
If you still want to give building a try, from the official ubuntu launchpad page for eclipse you can download the source files and especially the control files stored in the xxx.debian.tar.gz file. Take a look at the Debian wiki for some tips on how to build. Precise has the Indigo SR2 version and Quantal seems to have Juno.
I'm trying to install the Coffeescript bundle into TextMate via terminal.
I cd to the correct directory but when I try the git command I get:
"Launch of "git" failed: the PowerPC architecture is no longer supported." I imagine that's because I upgraded to Lion. But this seems ridiculous that I can't git anymore.
And manual install doesn't work because the bundle is a group of folders, not a single file like all the other bundles in the Bundles section of the application.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Charlie Magee
You don't need Git to install a TextMate bundle:
download the .zip from github
extract it
rename the folder to coffeescript.tmbundle
double-click on it to install it automatically
done
Your Git problem is probably because your git is a PowerPC executable or an universal executable. You should re-install it.
A few things are missing from your question: When/how did you install git? Do you use it often? Does it work elsewhere? What was the previous version of your OS?
I would like to make an offline Eclipse installation with JDT, CDT and a few other plugins. This is what I would like to do, in decreasing preference:
Create an installation package similar to the ones available for download on the Eclipse website. Question: How can this be done? How are they created? Is there some kind of automated tool that gets the packages from p2 repositories and builds them? Is there a detailed explanation somewhere of how they are created? (I am aware of Yoxos, but that is a few versions old)
Do the installation on an internet-connected computer, and then copy the folder to another computer. Question: Can this be done? Will a simple Copy/Paste work correctly? Is there anything I can delete from the installation that will be automatically recreated?
Use an Eclipse package, say JDT, and a downloaded copy (zip file?) of the CDT and other plugins, and install them on the target machine using the standard Eclipse plugin installation from a local archive method. Question Where can I get these downloads?
The simplest approach you could use is to start from the eclipse "classic" package downloaded directly from the site, and then manually install the other components you need via update manager. You can then zip the eclipse directory and distribute it without any problem.
Otherwise you could try to use Yoxos to create your package, download and distribute it
I'm trying to learn to use glassfish for the first time. My IDE is netbeans and I've installed the glassfish plugin for netbeans. I opened up synaptics package manager and typed in glassfish. My choices were
imqv2
glassfish-activaton
glassfish-mail
glassfish-appserv
glassfish-toplink-essentials
glassfish-jmac-api
glassfish-javaee
I'm not sure what is in each package, or which package are needed. I can't seem to find anything that tells me anything descriptive about these packages.
I've seen a lot of tutorials on how to install glassfish, but I'd prefer to use apt-get / synaptics to install glassfish so that syntactics can take care of updating.
To strictly answer your question, I think that a typical install would at least include glassfish-appserv, glassfish-javaee, glassfish-toplink-essentials (for JPA).
But for development, I'd warmly recommend to use GlassFish v3 (because of the session preservation across deployments feature, to maximize productivity) and to install it manually in your home directory. Download the self-extracting installer file from here.
Do you want to run the latest and greatest software? It looks like Synaptic has Glassfish version 2 which is an entire major version out of date.
Just for the record: I love Ubuntu and their (well, Debian's) package management system. However, for any Java applications, I prefer to do manual installations. So, my Maven, Eclipse, Tomcat, Glassfish, etc. were all done through manual installs for the newest version... and because sudo apt-get install winds up throwing the app in some weird place and can have unexpected behavior.
Here is how you can do a manual install...
Download Glassfish: wget http://download.java.net/glassfish/v3/nightly/latest-glassfish.zip
Extract the archive anywhere on your filesystem
Inside your IDE such as Netbeans or Eclipse, setup a new server and point it at where you extracted the file
It's also useful to add a new environment variable to ~/.bashrc file, which will make it easier to start the server from the command-line, e.g. $GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1
Another cool thing to try, if you're into maven, is to use the maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin. It's a clean way to get a web app up and running and not need to manually install glassfish and not even have to use an IDE.
You might also try asking this question at superuser.com if you really want to get it working with Synaptic.
i dont know if this here is still open...
but if you know how to handle shell commands on ubuntu then you might find this here helpful:
http://www.nabisoft.com/tutorials/glassfish/installing-glassfish-311-on-ubuntu