Question

I just git cloned auto-complete from GitHub. When I typed

make

I got:

emacs -Q -L . -batch -f batch-byte-compile auto-complete.el auto-complete-config.el

In toplevel form:
auto-complete.el:49:1:Error: Cannot open load file: popup

In toplevel form:
auto-complete-config.el:31:1:Error: Cannot open load file: popup
make: *** [byte-compile] Error 1

I didn’t see anything in the auto-complete documentation that says that I have to install popup. I don’t remember running into this problem before. Is this a new dependency? Is popup a package that is required by auto-complete?

Answer 1

If you use Emacs 24 (which you probably should by now) you can use the command M-x package-install and install auto-complete through there. This will install it correctly and is the best method of installing packages.

popup.el should have been included with your copy of auto-complete though, if not check here https://github.com/auto-complete/popup-el to get the appropriate copy.

To enable packages you can add something like this to your .emacs:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
(setq url-http-attempt-keepalives nil)

The last line is simply to keep the downloads of large packages from timing out sometimes.