Could not find package X in recipe repositories

[flyingns]

After updating doom with doom upgrade, or its packages with doom update, I get errors like these:

Package error: (error Could not find package org-roam in recipe repositories: (org-elpa melpa gnu-elpa-mirror emacsmirror-mirror))
Package error: (error Could not find package company-org-roam in recipe repositories: (org-elpa melpa gnu-elpa-mirror emacsmirror-mirror))

And/or errors like these:

Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, org-roam
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, org-superstar

[hlissner]

It's a known issue where your local melpa repo isn't being updated, so straight (our package manager) can't find new packages (like org-roam or org-superstar).

I'm working on a fix, but in the meantime you'll need to update your local melpa repo manually:

EDIT: This has been fixed in recent commits of Doom, but users coming from an older version may yet encounter this the first time they run doom upgrade, so this fix is still applicable to you:

# Update MELPA
cd ~/.emacs.d/.local/straight/repos/melpa
git pull

# Clear straight's cache
rm -f ~/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build-cache.el
doom sync

[hlissner]

For posterity and to avoid confusion, @jcf's issue is unrelated to this one (see #2937, which was resolved separately).

[glencjones]

I had the same issue for shellcheck discovered it was also in my config (package.el), removed it and message has now gone...

[hlissner]

As of 0e851ac bin/doom will update your recipe repos before installing/updating packages, which should resolve this issue. Let me know if that isn't the case and I'll reopen it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[kawaiier]

Had the same problem. Just tried doom upgrade/update and got this

Type: error
  Message:
    error
  Data:
    "Could not find package org-superstar in recipe repositories: (org-elpa melpa gnu-elpa-mirror emacsmirror-mirror)"

UPDATE: Worked after following these steps

[nikolauska]

@kawaiier Had the same issue org-superstar. Updating melpa manually as mentioned above fixed the issue

[harrisj]

I have done the fix as mentioned above, but it always breaks again the next time I run doom upgrade

x There was an unexpected error:ate...
  Type: doom-package-error
  Message:
    Error with packages
  Data:
    "org-superstar"
    (error "Failed to run \"git\"; see buffer *straight-process*")
  Straight output:
    fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
    Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
    'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
    HEAD

[VitalyAnkh]

@harrisj I have the same issue 😅

[hlissner]

@harrisj @VitalyAnkh Try

git -C ~/.emacs.d pull
git -C ~/.emacs.d/.local/straight/repos/melpa pull
rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/.local/straight/repos/org-superstar
rm -f ~/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build-cache.el
doom sync

[samwhitlock]

In case anyone happens upon this for org superstar in particular, @hlissner changed superstar to require (org +pretty) in init.el a few days ago (due to speed issues).

If the above package refreshing stuff doesn't work, you may need to add this flag.