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I am watching a great YouTube series called Emacs From Scratch from System Crafters' YouTube channel. On episode #4, David Wilson talks about projectile.

His screen shows:

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There is a pointer for the source on GitHub:

(use-package projectile
  :diminish projectile-mode
  :config (projectile-mode)
  :custom ((projectile-completion-system 'ivy))
  :bind-keymap
  ("C-c p" . projectile-command-map)
  :init
  ;; NOTE: Set this to the folder where you keep your Git repos!
  (when (file-directory-p "~/Projects/Code")
    (setq projectile-project-search-path '("~/Projects/Code")))
  (setq projectile-switch-project-action #'projectile-dired))

Unfortunately, this does not work. After quitting Emacs, when I re-started it, I was expecting the installation to be successful. However, there is a message in the Warning Buffer indicating:

Error (use-package): Failed to install projectile: https://melpa.org/packages/projectile-20220313.1334.el: Not found

This is weird because Projectile is listed on MELPA.

How can I fix this?

Thanks.

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    All the stuff about projectile-project-search-path is a red herring; you should remove it. The error message simply indicates that it tried to download the package and it failed. Commented Apr 19, 2022 at 22:39

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After executing M-x package-refresh-contents and re-starting Emacs, the previous error message was gone. Instead, there was this message:

Leaving directory ‘/home/pedro/.emacs.d/elpa/projectile-20220419.1102’

Compiling file /home/pedro/.emacs.d/elpa/projectile-20220419.1102/projectile.el at Tue Apr 19 19:35:59 2022
Entering directory ‘/home/pedro/.emacs.d/elpa/projectile-20220419.1102/’

Compiling internal form(s) at Tue Apr 19 19:35:59 2022
Warning (bytecomp): ‘(let ((version (or (projectile--pkg-version) projectile-version))))’ is a malformed function
Warning (bytecomp): reference to free variable ‘version’

After re-starting Emacs again, there was no message and Emacs had a normal start-up. Projectile seems to have been successfully installed. Not sure why it was necessary to refresh contents.

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    Look at the dates in the file name; you tried to download a file that was a month old and is, for whatever reason, no longer on the server. Commented Apr 19, 2022 at 22:41

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