Re: no package.el emacs 24.5.1

[Nicolas Richard]

Sanjeev Sariya <sanjeevsariya@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Emacs community,
>
> I'm new to emacs. I'm trying to add couple of bells and whistles to it. 
> I upgraded it's version to 24.5.1 Mac OSX
>
> When I type emacs on terminal I get:
>
> ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp
> evaluation.
> ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
> ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.

That looks good. Please try C-h t (i.e. press control key, press h,
release both, press t) for an emacs tutorial.

> There's no package.el present in 
>
> ~/.emacs.d/ 

No file package.el is supposed  to be in that directory, so that's fine.

> Without this nothing would load, and no M-x would work.

Please be more specific: what did  you try to load, how does loading
fail and what does M-x actually do ? Any error message ?

-- 
Nico