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Peter Dyballa wrote:

> These files need to have provide staements. The require statement have
> to match what's being provided.

If the problem was just a missing provide, the error message would say
"required feature `foo' was not provided".

The "cannot open load file" error means the file is not in the
load-path (or is unreadable).