Re: where to get "use-package"? [was: Re: use pdf-tools in Emacs]

[Philip Kaludercic]

"gebser@mousecar.com" <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:

> On 4/27/23 2:30 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> (use-package pdf-tools
>>    :ensure t
>>    :init
>>    (pdf-tools-install))
>
> Executing the above yields error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function use-package)
>   (use-package pdf-tools :ensure t :init (pdf-tools-install))
>   elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>   command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
>
> Then "C-h f use-package RET" shows it absent.  So installed
> "emacs-devel" but that didn't provide "use-package".  So what needs to
> be installed to acquire "use-package"?

The package is available on ELPA, so you need a M-x package-install RET
use-package RET before evaluating the expression.  From Emacs 29
onwards, it will be bundled in the default Emacs release.

> Thanks much.