Slime/Melpa: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, ../lib/macrostep

Slime/Melpa: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, ../lib/macrostep

[Emanuel Berg]

I just installed Slime from Melpa but when
I now byte compile Emacs it says,

    Error: Cannot open load file: no such file
    or directory, ../lib/macrostep.

The thing that might complicate matters is
I had SLIME from my package manager but reading
the manual where it said

    The easiest way to install and keep SLIME
    up-to-date is using Emacs's built-in
    package manager. SLIME is available from
    the MELPA repository. [1]

I did 'sudo aptitude purge slime' to get
a fresh start, then I installed via Melpa.

Still, what happened (?), shouldn't
happen, right?

[1] https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Installation.html

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Re: Slime/Melpa: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, ../lib/macrostep

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg wrote:

> I just installed Slime from Melpa but when
> I now byte compile Emacs it says,
>
>     Error: Cannot open load file: no such file
> or directory, ../lib/macrostep.

OK, macrostep [1] is some software component
related to Lisp programming. I managed to get
away with the problem (the error message when
byte-compiling) by adding this to the load
path in the makefile:

    ~/.emacs.d/elpa/macrostep-20161120.1306

By the way, my Makefile [2] now has tons of
those appends to the load path.

Is this really how you do it?

How do you do it?

[1] https://github.com/joddie/macrostep
[2] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/Makefile

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Re: Slime/Melpa: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, ../lib/macrostep

[ri]

On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 4:13:58 PM UTC-4, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> I just installed Slime from Melpa but when
> I now byte compile Emacs it says,
> 
>     Error: Cannot open load file: no such file
>     or directory, ../lib/macrostep.
> 
> The thing that might complicate matters is
> I had SLIME from my package manager but reading
> the manual where it said
> 
>     The easiest way to install and keep SLIME
>     up-to-date is using Emacs's built-in
>     package manager. SLIME is available from
>     the MELPA repository. [1]
> 
> I did 'sudo aptitude purge slime' to get
> a fresh start, then I installed via Melpa.
> 
> Still, what happened (?), shouldn't
> happen, right?
> 
> [1] https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Installation.html
> 
> -- 
> underground experts united
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

You should be able to fix this issue by adding (package-initialize) to the top of your Emacs init file. 

See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5828/why-do-i-have-to-add-each-package-to-load-path-or-problem-with-require-packag for details.

Re: Slime/Melpa: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, ../lib/macrostep

[Emanuel Berg]

ri wrote:

> You should be able to fix this issue by
> adding (package-initialize) to the top of
> your Emacs init file.

I have/had (package-initialize) , so I don't
think that was the issue, but it just might,
however I don't remember what I was up to back
in October 2017 so I can't try it :) Well,
thanks anyway.

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