As technomancy said, there's no way to tell what the issue was without more info, but was the Mac behind a proxy, by any chance? That was the issue I ran into

As technomancy said, there's no way to tell what the issue was without more info, but was the Mac behind a proxy, by any chance? That was the issue I ran into when I first tried to use ELPA. Solved by setting url-proxy-services in Emacs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595418/emacs-behind-http-proxy http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595418/emacs-behind-http...