Can't load on init after installing with melpa about zenburn-emacs

[bbatsov]

I've installed it via MELPA myself (as have many Prelude users) and it works just fine. The relevant init file code would be just:

;; use zenburn as the default theme
(load-theme 'zenburn t)

[hamstah]

I just tried again with an empty config (same emacs version)

Put that in my .emacs

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))

then did

M-x list-packages

selected the theme, then install

added the following line to the .emacs

(load-theme 'zenburn t)

Next startup with --debug-init

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to find theme file for `zenburn'")
  signal(error ("Unable to find theme file for `zenburn'"))
  error("Unable to find theme file for `%s'" zenburn)
  load-theme(zenburn t)
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/nicolas/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 132
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/nicolas/.emacs" "/home/nicolas/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[0 "�\205\262

It lists as installed in the packages list, installed under elpa as expected
At that point I can't select the theme manually, it doesn't show up in the list of themes and the path to the them

Isn't the install supposed to set the path to the theme itself?

[bbatsov]

It doesn't seem to me you're using MELPA :-)

Themes are not handled specially by the install process, so they have to set the path to them via an autoload (as zenburn does) - have a look at the autogenerated autoloads in the .emacs.d/elpa/zenburn folder and paste them here.

[hamstah]

oops sorry yeah, I redid it with melpa instead of marmalade

$ cat .emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-theme-20120502/zenburn-theme-autoloads.el

;;; zenburn-theme-autoloads.el --- automatically extracted autoloads
;;
;;; Code:



;;;### (autoloads nil "zenburn-theme" "zenburn-theme.el" (20387 62514))
;;; Generated autoloads from zenburn-theme.el

(when load-file-name (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path (file-name-as-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name))))

;;;***


;;;### (autoloads nil nil ("zenburn-theme-pkg.el") (20387 62514 960840))

;;;***


(provide 'zenburn-theme-autoloads)
;; Local Variables:
;; version-control: never
;; no-byte-compile: t
;; no-update-autoloads: t
;; coding: utf-8
;; End:
;;; zenburn-theme-autoloads.el ends here

.emacs

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)

(load-theme 'zenburn t)

[hamstah]

ah. Found my issue. missing the (package-initialize) :| the theme loads fine :)