when i use my emacs with purcell's .emacs.d ,i can't use slime - emacs

Question

when i try M-x slime ,all i get is
Can't locate module: SWANK-IO-PACKAGE::SWANK-TRACE-DIALOG
but when i use my own .emacs.d ,it works.
how can i fix it?

Answer 1

I find the same issue, I have solved it.
The reason is that I installed slime with "sudo apt-get install slime" before, I guess this package will mess up with locally installed(by init.el when emacs first start) in ~/.emacs.d/elpha/slime-2*.
Solution: Check that if you have slime in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp,or something like that. If you do have this package, remove this system level slime with:
sudo apt-get remove slime
Restart emacs after this, and emacs should be able to use right slime package, problem should disappear after this.

Answer 2

I encountered this issue as you did. I got an error that's something like "couldn't find package Emacs-24.4". This inspired me to install Emacs-24.4 on my Ubuntu, instead of older version 24.3 which is the newest I can get from apt-get. (A convincing fact is that the newer version 24.5 provided by Homebrew works well with Purcell's package on my Mac.)
Under Emacs 24.4, slime proved to run well with Purcell's .emacs.d/. But it really costs me a lot of time to install Emacs-24.4 on my Ubuntu. First, I had to solve the problems of dependencies. Using aptitude, I get rid of the problem which apt-get failed to solve:
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install build-essential
sudo aptitude build-dep emacs24
When the dependency issue pops out, aptitude will give you some suggestions including downgrading your current packages. I chose solutions of downgrade without leaving over any unsolved dependency problem (select 'no' until you find an acceptable one). During reinstalling build packages, Ubuntu iso cdrom may be required.
Then install Emacs 24.4:
wget http://open-source-box.org/emacs/emacs-24.4.tar.xz
tar xvf emacs-24.4.tar.xz
cd emacs-24.4
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/.local/lib --without-pop --without-kerberos --without-mmdf --without-sound --without-wide-int --without-xpm --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif --without-png --without-rsvg --without-xml2 --without-imagemagick --without-xft --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-xaw3d --without-xim --without-ns --without-gpm --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings --without-selinux --without-gnutls --without-x
make && make install
References:
https://gist.github.com/tnarihi/6054dfa7b4ad2564819b
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-emacs-24-4-on-ubuntu-14-10-ubuntu-14-04-and-derivative-systems/