Hello, I wanted to try out Clojure. It was my understanding that swank-clojure was a package GNU Emacs that would download clojure automatically. But the docs for it no longer say that.
Anyway, I successfully installed slime and slime-repl using package.el under a manually built GNU Emacs 23 with Ubuntu. However, whenever I try to install swank-clojure or clojure, the package system reports: let: File exists: /home/metaperl/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-1.7.1/clojure-mode.el Manually removing the directory /home/metaperl/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-1.7.1 and trying again simply leads to the same error. Here is the output of M-x report-emacs-bug In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) of 2010-05-14 on locohost Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10604000 configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Apropos Minor modes in effect: desktop-save-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t show-paren-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> C-x 2 C-x b * m e s <return> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-v C-l <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> i x C-x o C-x o C-x d <backspace> <return> g n n n n ! r m SPC - r f <return> g C-x o x y e s <return> ESC < C-x o ESC > C-x b * <return> ESC > <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> g p p v C-x k <return> p p p p p v ESC > C-x k <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> x <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <triple-down-mouse-5> <triple-mouse-5> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> ESC x m e a c s - <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e m a c s - b u <tab> <tab> <tab> C-g <f1> a b u g <return> C-x o C-v C-s e m a s c ESC x r e p o r t e <backspace> - e m <tab> <return> Recent messages: byte-code: Beginning of buffer Mark set Contacting host: tromey.com:80 Reading [text/plain]... 28k of 28k (100%) Reading... done. let: File exists: /home/metaperl/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-1.7.1/clojure-mode.el byte-code: End of buffer [2 times] Quit Type M-x display-buffer RET to restore the other window. 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