Error updating emacs packages: Failed to download 'gnu' archive

Question

My init.el uses this to initialize packages:

(package-initialize)
(add-to-list \'package-archives \'(\"gnu\" . \"http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/\"))
(         


        

Answer 1

My issue was that I was missing gpg (gnupg).

On OSX I solved this by using brew install gpg.