From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: flycheck on Emacs24 Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:14:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83bnvglkit.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppjx43v5.fsf@haines.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399014895 6586 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2014 07:14:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 07:14:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 09:14:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg7gF-0003tO-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 09:14:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg7gF-0001vp-DZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 03:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg7fu-0001qR-On for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 03:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg7fn-0004oM-Qb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 03:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg7fn-0004o7-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 03:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4X00400Q9NGQ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 10:14:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N4X004ENQRT7Y60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 10:14:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87ppjx43v5.fsf@haines.att.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97535 Archived-At: > From: haines@haines.att.net > Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:54:06 -0400 > > I downloaded a flycheck 20140422.657 tar into > /usr/local/share/flycheck. Unarchiving it creates a directory in which > there is flycheck-pkg.el, flycheck.el, flycheck.info. > > I didn't know how to install these files, and so tried copying them into > ~/elisp. > > I added a line in ~/.elisp: > > (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode) > > But when I try to initialize flycheck with M-x global-flycheck-mode > I get: > > M-x global-flycheck [No Match] > > How should I have installed the file? There weres no directions. My crystal ball says the directory where you have the flycheck *.el files doesn't appear in load-path. If so, you should add it to that list.