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Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Mart van de Wege [2015-10-17 14:58:02+02] wrote:
>
>> I've installed a bunch of libraries from elpa, and I found at least
>> one of them is not available unless I do an explicit M-x load-library
>>
>> Now, I thought to add that to my .emacs, but neither (load-library
>> "org-alert") nor (require 'org-alert) works. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I think Elpa directories are not in load-path at the Emacs init time. If
> you insert
>     
>     (package-initialize)
>
> in your init file Emacs becoems aware of Elpa packages.

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks.

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