Re: where to get "use-package"? [was: Re: use pdf-tools in Emacs]

["gebser@mousecar.com" <gebser@mousecar.com>]

On 5/1/23 6:30 AM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> "gebser@mousecar.com" <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> 
>> On 4/27/23 2:30 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> (use-package pdf-tools
>>>     :ensure t
>>>     :init
>>>     (pdf-tools-install))
>>
>> Executing the above yields error:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function use-package)
>>    (use-package pdf-tools :ensure t :init (pdf-tools-install))
>>    elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>>    eval-last-sexp(nil)
>>    funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>>    command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
>>
>> Then "C-h f use-package RET" shows it absent.  So installed
>> "emacs-devel" but that didn't provide "use-package".  So what needs to
>> be installed to acquire "use-package"?
> 
> The package is available on ELPA, so you need a M-x package-install RET
> use-package RET before evaluating the expression.  From Emacs 29
> onwards, it will be bundled in the default Emacs release.
> 
>> Thanks much.

Wow!  Yeah, that installed quite a few packages.  No error now.  Thanks 
much!