Re: [Orgmode] Re: Installing Orgmode through ELPA-tarball

[Martin Stemplinger]

Hallo Jambunathan K.,

> Thanks for trying out ELPA.

It looks pretty interesting and is an ideaa long overdue IMHO!
>
>
>>>    2. Use the Emacs package manager's =M-x list-packages= to browse
>>>       and install the latest version.
>>
>> Failed with the error message: Failed to download `Orgmode' archive.
>>
>
> This is expected. Orgmode cannot act as ELPA repo. There are some minor
> things to be fixed.  Tarball is the way to go atleast for next few days
> ...
OK
>
>>>    3. Do =M-x package-install-file=. When prompted for =Package file
>>>       name=, point it to .tar file downloaded in step 2.
>>>
>> Failed with the error message: package-read-from-string: Can't read whole 
>> string
>
> Questions:
> =========
>
> What package.el you are using? I hope it is the one that is bundled in
> to Emacs and *not* the one distributed from http://tromey.com.
Yes. It says in the header

;; Author: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
;; Created: 10 Mar 2007
;; Version: 0.9
;; Keywords: tools

>
> May I ask you what version of Emacs you use and what OS you run on?
Sorry I shuld have mentioned that. It's GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1
(i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-10-18 on windows 7 Home Premium
>
> There is a comment in the package manager that there is a dependency on
> GNU tar. May be the tar binary that you are running is not "GNU tar
> compatible"
I use the one from gnuwin32. It says tar (GNU tar) 1.22.
>
> Just to confirm, copy the below elisp code to scratch buffer and do a
> C-x C-e with cursor before the marker '@'.
>
> What do you get?
>
I get this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't read whole string")
  signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
  error("Can't read whole string")
  package-read-from-string("tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range 
0..65535\n(define-package \"org\" \"20101101\" \"Outline-based notes management 
and organizer\" nil)\ntar: Exiting with failure status due to previous 
errors\n")
  (progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
  eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("\306      
@\307=\203!\310\311\312\"\210\313\311!\211A@)\242\314=\203!\310\315\312\"\210\316!\210\317
 \210\320 !\210\f\203d\321ed\"
V\203Web\210\322
\245y\210`db\210\322
\245
Zy\210`|\210)\323c\210eb\210\324\325\326 
\"\210\327\306!\210\324\330!\210\331\312\324\330!\210\212\332 
\210+\331\207" [unread-command-char debugger-args x debugger-buffer 
noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines -1 debug backtrace-debug 4 t 
backtrace-frame lambda 5 pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer 
count-lines 2 "...\n" message "%s" buffer-string kill-emacs "" nil 
recursive-edit middlestart buffer-read-only standard-output] 4)
  debug(error (error "Can't read whole string"))
  signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
  error("Can't read whole string")
  package-read-from-string("tar: org-20101101.tar: Cannot open: No such file or 
directory\ntar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now\n")
  (progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
  eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("\306      
@\307=\203!\310\311\312\"\210\313\311!\211A@)\242\314=\203!\310\315\312\"\210\316!\210\317
 \210\320 !\210\f\203d\321ed\"
V\203Web\210\322
\245y\210`db\210\322
\245
Zy\210`|\210)\323c\210eb\210\324\325\326 
\"\210\327\306!\210\324\330!\210\331\312\324\330!\210\212\332 
\210+\331\207" [unread-command-char debugger-args x debugger-buffer 
noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines -1 debug backtrace-debug 4 t 
backtrace-frame lambda 5 pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer 
count-lines 2 "...\n" message "%s" buffer-string kill-emacs "" nil 
recursive-edit middlestart buffer-read-only standard-output] 4)
  debug(error (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or 
directory" "~/tmp/"))
  call-process("D:/Entwicklung/emacs-24.0.50/bin/cmdproxy.exe" nil t nil "-c" 
"tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")
  shell-command-to-string("tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")
  (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf 
org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))
  (progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
  eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string 
(shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar 
org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

Thanks for your support!

Regards,
Martin