Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: > Christopher Schmidt <christop...@ch.ristopher.com> writes: > >> $ emacs -q --eval "(progn (package-refresh-contents) (package-install >> 'auctex) (kill-emacs))" > > I can't install auctex through package-install.
Why is that? What's failing? ( "export HOME=/tmp" makes Emacs use /tmp/.emacs.d as it's user-directory, forcing package.el to not touch your real configuration in ~/.emacs.d.) > Can you give more directions? There is nothing special about my AUCTeX installation. Vanilla AUCTeX should produce the same results. The only things one needs to take care of before executing my recipe is that AUCTeX is autoloaded but not loaded. Christopher