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So I've been trying to learn and use both Emacs and Org-mode for a while and it has been going pretty well but I am certainly a beginner in these topics including Emacs Lisp.

I found this really good-looking org package called org-drill and I've been struggling to get it running. I initially tried what it said in the installation manual, as in changing the org default variables and ticking the box where it says dril... that didn't work. I tried googling for a bit and I figured that maybe I don't have contrib packages installed. I tried doing what was given as the answer here: org-plus-contrib and org with `require` or `use-package` again, to no avail. I tried manually searching for the package org-plus-contrib and I couldn't find it. In my init.el I have this:

;; ELPA
(setq package-user-dir (concat dotfiles-dir "elpa"))
(require 'package)
(dolist (source '(("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
              ("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
              ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")
              ("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/")))
  (add-to-list 'package-archives source t))
(package-initialize)

So as I said, installing org-plus-contrib doesn't work. Neither does manually searching for it. Is it already installed? Am I missing something? Requiring org-drill in any manner doesn't work either. Do I have to manually include the contrib folder? I tried searching where it is but that didn't work either. I'm just not sure where to look next. Any suggestions would be brilliant.

Thanks a lot.

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    This question is poorly posed, and so risks being closed as unclear. You say nothing about what you have tried specifically, what you expected, and what specifically you saw happen instead. If you want helpful help then you owe it to *yourself* to provide the best possible description of the problem, which means providing *specifics* - in this case probably a step-by-step recipe of what you did. – Drew May 03 '15 at 23:08
  • Sorry, I was pretty frustrated when I wrote that. But yes, I'll edit it now, I should know better. Thanks for the reply. – phunkrebel May 04 '15 at 00:45
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    What error message does `(require 'org-drill)` give you? – erikstokes May 04 '15 at 01:59
  • What happens when you do `M-x` `find-library` `RET` `org-drill` `RET`? – itsjeyd May 04 '15 at 06:34
  • Check you directories under `~/.emacs.d/elpa`. If you have sucessfully installed `org-plus-contrib` there should be directory starting with name and containing `org-drill.el`. It is best if you have no other package installation of `org` mode present. – Andrew Swann May 04 '15 at 08:14
  • @erikstokes `eval-buffer: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, org-drill` – phunkrebel May 04 '15 at 10:33
  • @itsjeyd `find-library-name: Can't find library org-drill` – phunkrebel May 04 '15 at 10:33
  • @AndrewSwann Ok, I checked. I only have org which doesn't contain org-drill. But how do I get org-plus-contrib then? – phunkrebel May 04 '15 at 10:36
  • In my set-up I merely customize `package-archives` to the list of archives and set nothing else for packages. Then when I restart emacs, `list-packages` includes `org-plus-contrib` under the `org` archive. – Andrew Swann May 04 '15 at 10:53
  • Thanks Andrew, I'm not sure what I did but the package suddenly appeared... – phunkrebel May 04 '15 at 11:06

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