[AUCTeX] Problems loading preview-latex

[Florian Ahrweiler]

Hello everyone.

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
with AUCTeX 11.89 on Tisquel GNU/Linux.

I have pasted some useful configuration into ~/.emacs and everything
seems to work fine. However, I get the following error message after
starting EMACS:

> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
> `/home/florian/.emacs':
>
> File error: Cannot open load file, preview-latex.el
>
> 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.

Starting with debugging option, I receive the following:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
> "preview-latex.el") load("preview-latex.el" nil t t)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/florian/.emacs" nil t)  ;
> Reading at buffer position 986
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/florian/.emacs"
> "/home/florian/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[0 "\205\262
[lots of characters that I can't copy-paste]
> [init-file-user system-type delayed-warnings-list user-init-file
> inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen ms-dos "~" "/_emacs"
> windows-nt "/.emacs" directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$"
> "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" (initialization "`_emacs' init
> file is deprecated, please use `.emacs'") "~/_emacs" t load
> expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d"
> file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el"
> file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer
> than %s" sit-for 1 "default"] 7 "\n\n(fn)"]() command-line()
> normal-top-level()

What is happening and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Florian