Error updating emacs packages: Failed to download ‘gnu’ archive
Looks like a bug in your version of Emacs. You can probably circumvent it by setting package-check-signature to nil.
melpa
Package listed in MELPA, but not found in package install
I had to run M-x package-refresh-contents. Once I did that, the files were found. Here’s what my .emacs looks like: (cond ((>= 24 emacs-major-version) (require ‘package) (package-initialize) (add-to-list ‘package-archives ‘(“melpa-stable” . “http://stable.melpa.org/packages/”) t) (package-refresh-contents) ) )