Required package `request-0.1.0' is unavailable

[daleione]

Warning (emacs): Unable to activate package helm-gitignore'. Required packagerequest-0.1.0' is unavailable

[zentorwie]

You can install request via paradox.

[erwan]

I'm having the same error. I'm fine installing a package manually, but is it normal? Shouldn't spacemacs have its dependencies automatically installed?

[robbyoconnor]

Melpa handles this

[Linuus]

I also have this issue. Each time I restart spacemacs it goes and try to install the package, can't find it and shows the error. A bit annoying as it slows down the startup time quite a bit :)

Warning (emacs): Unable to activate package `helm-gitignore'.
Required package `request-0.1.0' is unavailable

[gguimaraesbr]

As mentioned in #4609, removing elpa/ and restarting spacemacs solved the problem

[StreakyCobra]

@daleione @erwan @Linuus Can you try what @gguimaraesbr suggested and report here if it works?

[erwan]

@StreakyCobra yes, that fixed it for me

[robbyoconnor]

Close this issue then @erwan

[Linuus]

Yes, it worked for me as well. Thanks.

[robbyoconnor]

Whenever you have issues like this, typically nuking elpa/ will resolve the problem, sometimes not...but typically it will.

[erwan]

@robbyoconnor I don't have the rights to close it, I didn't open it

[robbyoconnor]

@daleione close it ;) Nuking elpa will fix this.

[TheBB]

Closing due to popular request. :-)

[alexanderkjeldaas]

Should nuking ~/.emacs.d/elpa be something spacemacs can do for me, since this is "what people do"?

[StreakyCobra]

Nope it's not wanted. Deleting the elpa folder is not a needed step in the normal workflow of Spacemacs. It can be tried in case of bugs though.

[rihenperry]

I faced the similar issue. I took backup of ~/.emacs/elpa and restarted emacs. It took off from there and now compiling packages as I updated package index previously.

[cpjolicoeur]

you dont need to nuke all of elpa just .emacs.d/elpa/helm-gitigore

[panagiotious]

Downloading all packages takes more than 5 minutes for me; I assume that might be the case for anyone working with three or four programming languages and enables themes! I would rather not having to nuke elpa quite often apparently.

[Softsapiens]

For me only works to nuke all of elpa.
@cpjolicoeur only heml-gitigore was not enough :-(
Thanks!

[3rd3]

rm -rf $HOME/.emacs.d/elpa/helm-gitignore*

For the lazy.

[stephenway]

Removing helm-gitignore directoried from elpa doesn't fix it for me.

[3rd3]

@stephenway Try rm -rf $HOME/.emacs.d/elpa and restart as other people have suggested.

[stephenway]

@3rd3 That did the trick, thanks!

[aBathologist]

I tried starting up Emacs without an internet connection, thus without the luxury of needlessly downloading ~50mbs of packages I already had, and Spacemacs was basically broken: I couldn't do space f f to find files, let alone any other key sequences. I am deeply grateful for this beautiful tool, but if reports of breaking bug are closed on the basis of a hacky workaround like nuking one's entire library of installed packages, I don't know that I can trust my workflow to the reliability and stability of the software. If there's not enough person-power to fix the issue now, that's totally understandable, and I'm not saying any user is entitled to quick fixes. But I do worry that hiding breaking bugs because of a pretty horrible workaround is a bad practice for the culture around this beautiful collection of software.... I hope I don't seem out of line here....

[agrafix]

I also run into this issue frequently. This always happens after upgrading packages. Is there anything I can to to prevent this?

[bhilburn]

I also run into this pretty regularly with updates. Blowing away the helm-gitignore-* elpa directory does the trick, but it is a bit obnoxious.

[sunlightlj]

1. Start spaceemacs
2. : list-packages
3. search&install "request" (i x)
4. restart emacs (SPC feR)

Note: check the file ~/.emacs.d/elpa/helm-gitignore-20150517.2056 for more infomation