Slime mode error - emacs

Question

I was following the guide and information from A gentle tutorial to Emacs/Swank/Paredit for Clojure
However after opening elpa and installing clojure-mode, slime and paredit. I restarted emacs and then attempted to use M-x slime however it continually says no match . What am I doing wrong?
I then tried to install clojure-mode from marmalade http://marmalade-repo.org/packages I byte-compiled package el and then added
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")) to my.emacs. However marmalade errors with
Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives .
Unsure exactly what I am doing wrong I am on windows7 using emacs 23.3. I have clojure installed to c:/clojure.
Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

My init.el has both (require 'package) and (package-initialize). It's not very big, it looks like this:
(require 'package)
;; Add the original Emacs Lisp Package Archive
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))
;; Add the user-contributed repository
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
I'm on emacs 24 (a development build) on Windows 7. I had trouble getting emacs 23 to work with packages too, it was easier for me to just upgrade.
By the way, I noticed that if I set a HOME environment variable, emacs looks there for the .emacs.d directory (instead of in %USER_PROFILE%\AppData\Roaming).

Answer 2

Download package.el (don't follow the instructions on the ELPA site, just download the package.el provided on marmalade's site).
Put package.el in your .emacs.d directory (~/.emacs.d/).
Add the following to your .emacs file (~/.emacs):
;;Load path to my packages
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
;;Load ELPA (the package.el you downloaded from marmalade)
(require 'package)
;;Load Marmalade (the code found on marmalade's welcome page)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
That's it! I really hope this helps.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to add (package-initialize) at the end of the code I provided. If you don't add this line, the packages will install, but won't load.

Answer 3

I think, that you need to put
(require 'package)
before 'add-to-list'
P.S. and add following call after 'add-to-list'
(package-initialize)
this command will load installed packages and activate them
P.P.S. '(require 'package)' maybe not needed, but I'm personally not using 'package.el'

Answer 4

It seems to me you're missing either (require 'package) or (package-initialize). You can check out my setup here - I'm using both marmalade and clojure-mode on Windows 7 and it works like a charm.

Answer 5

Do not know it is same problem, I faced when I were trying to use quicklisp's swank/slime
Finally I found that few /contrib/*.el packages were dependent on each other
if A's dependency package is B, if B is not byte-compiled than A will not compile
when you do
(require 'A)
it will throw
Symbol's variable value is void: A
So ensure you compile each package than try require.