why is this lein new template is failing - clojure

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

Answer 1

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.