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I am totally new to Emacs (I just began some days ago) and my purpose is to use it for Latex. I tried to install package auto-complete-auctex doing this :

1) I copy file auto-complete-auctex.el to my /.emacs.d folder ;

2) In Emacs shell I did M-x load-file and then put the path to the auto-complete-auctex.el file.

3) Then I get the message

Cannot open load file: aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type, tex

It seems that the way to install package is not direct one for me, as I am so new to Emacs...

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  • What do you mean exactly by "in Emacs shell"? – Drew Oct 31 '17 at 18:16
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Have you a init.el in .emacs.d? In the .emacs.d put auto-complete-auctex.el.

Then in your init.el you need to load the file and load the package:

;; Load the file
(load auto-complete-auctex)

;; Load the package
(require 'auto-complete-auctex)

And from your init.el do M-x load-file. Otherwise restart Emacs.

See Loading from EmacsLisp.

Else you can install packages with package.el: M-x package-list-packages: Install packages.

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  • Thanks for the answer. I did put the instructions you mention in my init.el file. Then when starting Emacs in --debug-init mode I got : Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable auto-complete-auctex) (load auto-complete-auctex) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/yggdrasil/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 45 load-with-code-conversion("/home/yggdrasil/.emacs.d/init.el fat" "/home/yggdrasil/.emacs.d/init.el" t t) load("/home/yggdrasil/.emacs.d/init" t t) In fact, the auto-completion-auctex package is not in the list of package when I do M-x package-list-packages – Olive. M Oct 31 '17 at 19:04
  • This is not an answer. Please put this kind of additional info directly in your question (since you can edit it). – Stefan Dec 21 '19 at 15:07

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