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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:33:42+00:00

I’m trying to use slime from CVS (2009-01-05) but keep getting this error: LOAD:

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I’m trying to use slime from CVS (2009-01-05) but keep getting this error:

        LOAD: A file with name       /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp does not exist

I’ve stripped my .emacs down to just:

(setq inferior-lisp-program '/usr/bin/clisp') (add-to-list 'load-path '/home/ssm/lisp/slime/') (require 'slime) (slime-setup)

I’ve deleted my ~/.slime directory, started with ’emacs -q’ and eval’d the above code but I keep getting the LOAD error when I run slime (via M-x slime). Any ideas on how to fix this error?

FWIW, I’ve tried to install slime via apt-get but I keep getting errors there too about cl-swank being broken. That’s a whole different story.

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  1. Have you purged the slime pkg you installed via apt-get? It looks like emacs is still reading the old site-specific configuration setup by apt-get. Try starting emacs with the -Q option, which prevents loading of site-specific (as well as user specific) customization, and see if the problem still occur.

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