====== el-get package manager for emacs ======

===== Installation =====

The installation is very simple once emacs is already installed and the emacs init file is located. Simple add the script patch from [[http://blog.nozav.org/post/2011/09/20/el-get%2C-un-gestionnaire-de-script/package/extension-pour-Emacs|someone's blog]] as I did at the bottom of my %%~/.emacs.d/init.el%% file.

  ;; Add a package manager, el-get:
  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")
  
  (unless (require 'el-get nil t)
    (url-retrieve
     "https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el"
     (lambda (s)
       (end-of-buffer)
       (eval-print-last-sexp))))

After making this change, I saved (C-x C-s) then closed (C-x c) emacs and restarted to execute the new patch. That was sufficient in my case because I am not yet running emacs as a server daemon. When I restarted I received a small buffer full of error messages because I hadn't yet taken care of the prerequisite.

==== Prerequisite ====

The script's ''url-retrieve'' requires ''git'' for the ''el-get-install.el'' to execute the installation. This ''git'' installation can be accomplished on Ubunut with

  sudo apt-get install git
  
after which I shut down and restarted emacs. 

==== Installation resumed ====

This time I received a buffer reading

  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/maurice/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get/.git/
  Switched to a new branch '3.stable'
  Branch 3.stable set up to track remote branch 3.stable from origin.
  
  Congrats, el-get is installed and ready to serve!