Naresh Gurbuxani <[email protected]> writes:

> I got the same error message: package lacks a file header
>
> I also tried auctex-13.2.4.tar.lz from same location.  Got same error
> message.

I think I misremembered:

,----[ C-h f package-install-file RET ]
| package-install-file is an autoloaded interactive native-comp-function
| in ‘package.el’.
| 
| (package-install-file FILE)
| 
| Install a package from FILE.
| The file can either be a tar file, an Emacs Lisp file, or a
| directory.
| 
|   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1.
| 
`----

So you have uncompress the file first with

  $ lzip -d auctex-14.0.9.tar.lz

and then run within Emacs:

  M-x package-install-file RET auctex-14.0.9.tar RET

Can you please try the above?

Best, Arash

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