• (eepitch-shell) cd foo tar xvf testpackage-0-0.tar • (add-to-list 'load-path "~/foo/testpackage-0.0") • (load "testpackage") • (apropos "testpackage") => testpackage-func is an interactive Lisp function in ‘testpackage.el’.
I thought maybe it needed to be in some GNU variant of the tar format for Emacs to be able to read it, but when I just open the tar file directly in Emacs I get a directory listing and can read all the files, so that's not it.
Jonathan Lamothe
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •FWIW it seems to be complaining that the package description is
nil. Two things about this:define-packagelists this argument as optional.Jonathan Lamothe
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •• (eepitch-shell)
cd foo
tar xvf testpackage-0-0.tar
• (add-to-list 'load-path "~/foo/testpackage-0.0")
• (load "testpackage")
• (apropos "testpackage")
=>
testpackage-func is an interactive Lisp function in ‘testpackage.el’.
(testpackage-func)
A test function
[back]works on my machine
@sacha
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to screwlisp • •@screwlisp @Sacha Chua When I try to install it with
M-x package-install-fileit gives me:Wrong type argument: stringp, nilWhen I use the debugger it seems to be caused by it thinking the package description is
nil? I'll try to dig deeper.Jonathan Lamothe
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