why is this lein new template is failing

Question

I just started with clojure web development, but, got stuck on step 1.

D:\cloj\work>lein new luminus guestbook +h2
Could not find artifact luminus:lein-template:jar:? in central    
(https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/)
Could not find artifact luminus:lein-template:jar:? in clojars 
(https://clojars.org/repo/)
This could be due to a typo in :dependencies or network issues.
If you are behind a proxy, try setting the 'http_proxy' environment variable.

I can see the template in clojars at https://clojars.org/repo/luminus/lein-template/
I am not behind a proxy.
my .lein/profiles.clj has the following content

{:user { :java-cmd "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\bin\java.exe" :plugins [ [lein-ancient "0.6.10"] [luminus/lein-template "2.9.10.74"] ] }
}

what am I missing ! thank you

hm, it works on my pc (linux) - AND I do not have a plugins entry in `.lein/profiles.clj` for `luminus/lein-template`, try removing it — birdspider, Sep 06 '16 at 17:19
One of you guys should add it as an answer to be accepted. Help ones who come here from google with the same problem — Boris Zagoruiko, Sep 08 '16 at 07:04

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '17 at 07:36

I was facing the same issue when reading the Web development With Clojure ebook. The problem was that I copy pasted the profiles.clj configuration from the ebook, which resulted in some invisible characters getting included that messed up the configuration. I verified this with a hex viewer.

The solution is to type the configuration manually or copy paste from here if you're lazy :)

{:user 
    {:plugins [
            [luminus/lein-template "2.9.10.74"]
        ]
    }
}

Of course you can just omit this too, but then you'll be using the latest version which might have some changes from when the book was written.

why is this lein new template is failing

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