Hi Jambunathan, > >> Sorry, I didn't get into too much detail here because I had the >> feeling that the problem might have been cause by me not being able >> to use the package manager correctly rather than the package manager >> itself. But if it could help others, of course, I'm sharing the >> details as far as I understand them. >> >> I'm using Aquamacs (for Mac OS): >> >> GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54) >> of 2011-10-25 on braeburn.aquamacs.org - Aquamacs Distribution 2.4 >> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> >> When I run "package-list-packages", I get the message "Failed to >> download `Org-mode' archive." (didn't note that before), but it still >> offered the latest version of Org nevertheless. > > Do > M-x customize-variable RET package-archives RET > > and delete the following "Org-mode" archive from the list: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (add-to-list 'package-archives > '("Org-mode" . "http://orgmode.org/pkg/daily/")) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Ok, deleted. > Additionally, you can also look at ~/.emacs.d/elpa/archives/ subdir and > recursively delete the directory corresponding to "Org-mode" archive. > >> I could install it from there and Org appeared to be updated to >> version 7.7, but somehow the macro "org-eval-in-environment" was only >> found after reloading Org uncompiled after every restart of >> Emacs. > >> This could be repeated infinitely, i.e., I always got this error >> message when running "package-list-packages" and it always offered me >> to install Org. Now I downloaded the tar-file manually and installed >> it with "package-install-file". Now "org-eval-in-environment" is found >> normally. After "package-list-files" I still get the message "Failed >> to download `Org-mode' archive.", but it shows Org as installed and >> does no longer offer to install it. >> >> I hope that was more helpful. If you need more information, I will be >> happy to try to provide it. > > I am trying to isolate the root cause of the issue here. Hope you can > help me locate the root cause. > > Try the following procedure: > > 1. Store the org-*.tar that you have downloaded in some safe place. Done. > 2. rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-* {BE CAREFUL HERE, YOU ARE DELETING > STUFF} > - In this step you are deleting your org installed through elpa. Done. > 3. Check your .emacs - Does it make have (require 'org-install)? If it > has this entry remove that line or comment out that line. Commented out. > 4. Restart emacs > 5. M-x locate-library RET org RET > 6. Note the directory reported. > - If it looks like it is coming from your default Emacs installation > directory then proceed to step 7. Obviously the directory I just added. > > - If it looks like it is one of the directories added by you, delete > that directory from either load-path or simply delete it from the > disk. (To be safe, instead of deleting you can just rename or move > the directory somewhere else). Goto step 4. > 7. Note the version of Org with M-x org-version RET. Renaming the folder didn't help because Emacs still found it. Moved the folder and now M-x locate-library RET org RET points to the original directory. M-x org-version RET -> Org-mode version 6.33x > Now do a M-x > package-install-file RET Your procedure is exactly what I did eventually to get it running. It worked, when I installed org via package-install-file RET. Instead, now I am reporting in detail what happens when I do M-x package-list-packages: I get the message: "Failed to download `Org-mode' archive." It still lists the newest version of org-mode along the packages. I hit "Install". I get a couple of error messages. Find attached the complete compile log.