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Re: Windows 10, Melpa, TSL
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Bo Grimes |
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Re: Windows 10, Melpa, TSL |
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Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:22:11 -0400 |
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I couldn't let it go as to why I wasn't having the problem and then
did. I think it was two separate problems. OP snipped to relevant
portions:
On 8/18/2016 10:39 AM, Bo Grimes wrote:
The Packages buffer loaded fine, but when I tried to install I got:
"could not create connection to melpa.milkbox.net"
After some Google work, it seems I should have been using melpa.org
not melpa.milkbox.net, so I changed that, and still had the same problem.
I found this on Github from the maintainer of Milkbox:
"milkypostman commented 2 days ago
sorry about this, we are having issues with our webserver but not clear
what the issue is."
Some more Google work led me to believe it was a TSL problem. I
followed the advice here:
http://xn--9dbdkw.se/diary/how_to_enable_GnuTLS_for_Emacs_24_on_Windows/index.en.html
which is basically:
Get GnuTSL, extract, copy DLLs to the bin directory of Emacs, restart
Emacs. It worked.
Apparently, because Milkbox was having webserver problems I couldn't
connect. When I switched to melpa I bumped into the fact that Melpa
recently switched to https and Emacs Windows doesn't ship with SSL/TLS,
a problem I wasn't having *before* because I was using Milkbox, a
problem solved by the above procedure.
OK, I can go to sleep now.