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reStructuredText Back-End for Org-Mode Export Engine
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Error attempting to install package in spacemacs #46

Closed Zonr0 closed 5 years ago

Zonr0 commented 5 years ago

I'm a bit of a newcomer to the emacs ecosystem, so please forgive me if this is just user error.

Attempting to install the package in spacemacs results in the following error: An error occurred while installing ox-rst (error: (error Package ‘emacs-26.1’ is unavailable))

I have tried in the user configuration section of .spacemacs

  1. (use-package ox-rst :ensure t)
  2. (use-package ox-rst :ensure nil)
  3. (require 'ox-rst)

I have also tried (what feels like the more idiomatically correct spacemacs method) of adding ox-rst to the dotspacemacs-additional-packages function in .spacemacs.

msnoigrs commented 5 years ago

It seems that Spacemacs is equivalent to emacs 24.4 or 25.2. (I'm not a spacemacs user) Ox-rst requires emacs 26.1 or above.

Please see also this issue https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/10796

Zonr0 commented 5 years ago

Thanks! I'll wait to see what happens on the spacemacs end then. Looking forward to being able to use this package when I can.

Zonr0 commented 5 years ago

To follow up on this for anyone curious:

Turns out the windows binaries linked on the spacemacs repo are pretty out of date (2-3 years on the latest snapshots) and seem to come from a dead project. I grabbed the 26.3 official binaries linked from the official emacs page and that resolved my issue. I haven't noticed any breaking changes with spacemacs in doing so.

Upgrading is straightforward and works pretty much exactly as you expect. I basically just backed up my old emacs folder, extracted the emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip archive and renamed it to emacs.