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I have installed paredit & need to turnoff smartparens. I checked this answer and I have added 

(advice-add #'smartparens-mode :before-until (lambda (&rest args) t))

to my prelude starter kit. Now when I restart emacs I get this error

Symbol's function definition is void: advice-add

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

When i run emacs with 

emacs --debug-init

I dont get any errors or backtrace. It starts normally & everything is working fine.

But when i start emacs directly same error occurs. Can someone tell me how to debug this?

Update: my emacs config.

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    Which version of Emacs are you on? (If you're not sure, check by doing M-x emacs-version.) advice-add is part of the new advice system introduced in Emacs 24.4, so if you're on Emacs 24.3 or older, you can't use it.
    – itsjeyd
    Commented Jan 16, 2015 at 8:02
  • Just checked that. I am using 24.4.1
    – Chillar Anand
    Commented Jan 16, 2015 at 9:16
  • How about (before using advice-add)?: (require 'advice)
    – lawlist
    Commented Jan 16, 2015 at 22:49
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    Do you have the library advice.el and inside it do you have the function advice-add? M-x find-library RET advice RET
    – lawlist
    Commented Jan 17, 2015 at 16:18
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    Where did you get your emacs? You should not have to download advice.el, it is part of emacs.
    – Jordon Biondo
    Commented Jan 19, 2015 at 14:20

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