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progzilla05:11:53

now I have exhausted my efforts on trying to solve the contacting host: http://elpa.gnu.org:80 issue

ianjones08:11:38

whats the biggest difference between gnu emacs and spacemacs?

bozhidar08:11:34

there’s no difference

bozhidar08:11:42

spacemacs is gnu emacs

bozhidar08:11:48

+ a ton of custom configuration

bozhidar08:11:02

which makes it behave in a vim-like fashion

bozhidar08:11:44

the biggest selling point of spacemacs is that it ships a super extensive evil-mode configuration

progzilla09:11:07

is it appropriate to edit package.el?

jethroksy14:11:07

@progzilla: what are you trying to achieve?

progzilla15:11:53

@jethroksy am trying to refresh my packages but it gets hanged at contacting host: http://elpa.gnu.org. http://gnu.org

jethroksy15:11:31

@progzilla: is this from a fresh install? can you try running 'emacs -q' in terminal and run M-x package-list-packages

progzilla16:11:23

Yes its fresh install

progzilla16:11:59

Still same problem

twillis16:11:12

@progzilla: what is the value of package-archives? C-h v package-archives

twillis16:11:54

fwiw here's mine...

(("gnu" . "")
 ("melpa" . "")
 ("marmalade" . ""))

jethroksy16:11:17

@progzilla: this is probably not an emacs issue, could be your internet connection. If you're really having troubles with package.el you could try Cask or el-get and see if you have any luck, but i doubt they'll solve your problem

progzilla16:11:25

Ok. I have tried 3 different Internet access to deal with this

progzilla16:11:17

@twillis thanks. That's what I have also

twillis16:11:23

do you have a personal firewall that's blocking emacs access maybe?

progzilla16:11:57

but how can i know that?

twillis16:11:28

i dont know, if it was windows it's would probably be in your settings somewhere. /shrug

progzilla16:11:43

am on ubuntu

twillis16:11:05

i dont know if that has a firewall or not. 😕

progzilla16:11:48

Even when I try to create a new app..?! Lein new app cloj

twillis16:11:06

anyway, you could eval this in a scratch buffer and find out if emacs is allowed to access the internet...

(with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "") (buffer-string))

roberto17:11:20

try disabling your firewall, looks like it is on

twillis18:11:22

wtf?? lol i'm out of ideas.

roberto18:11:47

yeah, only thing I can think of is that your ISP is blocking melpa

progzilla19:11:11

This is really weird! I tried on school eduroam network, home virgin network and Vodafone on my mobile...all not working:sob:

roberto20:11:49

what city are you in?

roberto21:11:48

huh, that is weird