Per Phil Hagelberg's suggestion on IRC, I downloaded and used his package.el, which fixed the issue for me:
http://github.com/technomancy/package.el/raw/master/package.el Phil said the bug hasn't been patched upstream. Justin On May 17, 4:18 pm, Terrence Brannon <scheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 - 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