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No markdown-mode package available in emacs (spacemacs)

in https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ at the installation section it says:

The recommended way to install markdown-mode is to install the package from MELPA Stable using package.el. First, configure package.el and the MELPA Stable repository by adding the following to your .emacs, init.el, or equivalent startup file:

(require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")) (package-initialize)

So I added it to my init.el, then restarted spacemacs, then I hit M-x and package-install but i don't see any markdown-mode package, am I doing anything wrong?

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Here is my init.el:

;;; init.el --- Spacemacs Initialization File
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
;;
;; Author: Sylvain Benner <sylvain.benner@gmail.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
;;
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;;
;;; License: GPLv3

;; Without this comment emacs25 adds (package-initialize) here
;; (package-initialize)

;; Increase gc-cons-threshold, depending on your system you may set it back to a
;; lower value in your dotfile (function `dotspacemacs/user-config')
(setq gc-cons-threshold 100000000)

(defconst spacemacs-version         "0.200.13" "Spacemacs version.")
(defconst spacemacs-emacs-min-version   "24.4" "Minimal version of Emacs.")

(if (not (version<= spacemacs-emacs-min-version emacs-version))
    (error (concat "Your version of Emacs (%s) is too old. "
                   "Spacemacs requires Emacs version %s or above.")
           emacs-version spacemacs-emacs-min-version)
  (load-file (concat (file-name-directory load-file-name)
                     "core/core-load-paths.el"))
  (require 'core-spacemacs)
  (spacemacs/init)
  (configuration-layer/sync)
  (spacemacs-buffer/display-startup-note)
  (spacemacs/setup-startup-hook)
  (require 'server)
  (unless (server-running-p) (server-start)))

;; (org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/configuration.org")

;; Additional...
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
Solution

  • Remember that spacemacs has it's own way of managing packages. I'd recommend simply loading the markdown layer, which should take care of installing the required packages

    Simply add markdown to the list of layers your .spacemacs:

    dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'(
  ;; ...
  ;; other layers
  markdown
 )