{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362","id":70778846,"number":1362,"title":"Windows 7 installation","user":{"login":"sebastian-schmidt","id":11968686,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11968686?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt","html_url":"https://github.com/sebastian-schmidt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastian-schmidt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-04-24T19:53:20Z","updated_at":"2015-04-24T21:54:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi i tried to install spacemacs, but it would not download the dependencies.\r\n\r\n```\r\nContacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80\r\nEntering debugger...\r\n```\r\nit would not find gpg, which is not on my path.\r\nUsed this as a workaround:\r\nhttp://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/949/using-elpa-in-batch-mode-on-windows-fails\r\nadded `(setq package-check-signature nil)` to init.el\r\nAfter a new start it loaded all the packages and after a second start it was ok.\r\n\r\nMaybe this should be added to the faq for windows user.\r\nCheers and thanks for spacemacs\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/comments/96077023","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362#issuecomment-96077023","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1362","id":96077023,"user":{"login":"tuhdo","id":4818719,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4818719?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo","html_url":"https://github.com/tuhdo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tuhdo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-24T21:54:38Z","updated_at":"2015-04-24T21:54:38Z","body":"That was almost a year ago. Back then it was good but I remember I got problem with installing packages. The version there is the old development 24.4 version, not the released version and the author seems not to maintain it anymore. You should try the 64 bit build I linked. It works for me on both Windows machine"}}