Flycheck installation: M-x package-install [No match]

Question

I'm relatively new to Emacs (and Linux for that matter). I'm trying to install flycheck. Following the installation instructions, I added

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
         '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

to my .emacs file (then killed Emacs and restarted).

Then M-x package-install RET flycheck RET. But Emacs says [No match]. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Platform: Emacs 24.3.1, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit running on VMware (Windows 10 host).

Answer 1

I'm also quite new to emacs, and I've had the same problem. What worked for me:

1. M-x package-list-packages RET
2. Find flycheck, mark it with an I
3. Use X to install marked package.

For reference, this is how I call package in my .emacs:

(require 'package) 
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/"))
(when (< emacs-major-version 24)
  ;; For important compatibility libraries like cl-lib
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))
(package-initialize)`