I get a error when I try install auto-complete in emacs on mac

Question

I'm newbie in emacs. I got an error when I try install auto-complete...I install it from https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete

when I make it, I got an error like this:

Loading subst-jis...
Loading subst-ksc...
Loading subst-big5...
Loading subst-gb2312...
Loading subst-jis...
Loading subst-ksc...
Loading subst-big5...
Loading subst-gb2312...
cask install
make: cask: No such file or directory
make: *** [.cask/22.1.1/elpa] Error 1

what am I doing wrong??...thanks!!!

Answer 1

You got error because cask is not installed. But you need not to install Cask if you don't develop auto-complete.

Steps for installing auto-complete are here.

1. Install newer Emacs by homebrew or macports.

Emacs(/usr/bin/emacs) which is installed on MacOSX is very old. Recent packages does not work on it.

2. Add following setting to your configuration file(~/.emacs.d/init.el).

   (require 'package)
   (package-initialize)
   (add-to-list'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
   

3. Restart Emacs

4. M-x package-refresh-contents

5. M-x package-install then you type auto-complete

See Also

• http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html