From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need help debuging my `.emacs` file Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:37:19 +0000 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87habi6pg0.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <97eff3ec-fba9-4ef4-8f45-2b53d58d0b23@googlegroups.com> <87iovy2udh.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384243311 21188 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2013 08:01:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:01:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 12 09:01:56 2013 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 1Vg8v3-00039y-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg8v3-0007uu-4a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg8un-0007ui-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg8ue-0001A0-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43569) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg8ue-00019v-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:01:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg8ud-0002UL-Fi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:01:27 +0100 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:01:27 +0100 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:01:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Memorial: Saint Josaphat, bishop and martyr, A.D. 2013 X-Shakespeare: "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" -- Hamlet, II.2 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bs2tndQnF1ypKPfROvL6YUDdkBI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:94467 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > eccstartup writes: > > This line: > >> (require 'package) > > is the problem. I also get: No it isn't :-) With emacs 24, that should work. > >> File error: Cannot open load file, package > > Because I don't have it, and neither do you. You don't have it, but perhaps *his* Emacs just can't find it! What OS are you using, OP? >> Should I download a package.el from http://marmalade-repo.org/ ? > > Yes No - not until you are sure it isn't already there somewhere on the system. Any 'package.el' on marmalade is not necessarily the package.el which comes bundled with emacs 24. atb Glyn