Trying to install org-roam on a newly compiled emacs 26.3 with a minimal init.el under Ubuntu 18.04. Stable melpa is up and running, sqlite3 is on the load-path. When I try to install org-mode, it complains that no emacsql-sqlite3-1.0.0 can be found. Melpa doesn’t know of a emacsql-sqlite3-1.0.0, and installing emacsql-sqlite3 doesn’t satisfy the org-roam installation. Is it me, the current emacs version, or the install package?
And have since found the Troubleshooting article, and following its steps org-roam installed and showed no interest in the non-existent emacsql-sqlite3-1.0.0. My “minimal init.el” was indeed minimal, so I may play some to try to find what was the problem, or I may just move on, ego properly diminished.
Would you like to try MELPA, instead of MELPA Stable?
Thanks - with an even leaner init.el I was able to install (and the emacsql-sqlite3 is emacsql-sqlite3-20200628.250. I have no idea where the 1.0.0 came from. I’m still getting some weird results as I try to bring org-roam up. It’s initializing just fine, creating the database in my org-roam folder, and when I try to create a new file I get a “symbol function is void” error: “Capture template ‘d’: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-show-all. Please adjust ‘org-roam-capture-templates’”
Curiouser and curiouser. I’ll keep at it, short of fiddling with the org-mode code…
Thanks again.
Yes, weird, indeed. Sounds like either Org mode is not loaded before Org-roam, or Org mode needs upgrading…
Thanks so much for your help.
Org was installed by org-roam (I threw away my old configuration and started over) so I assume that it’s version is OK - here’s how org and org-roam are called:
;; configuring org-mode
(require 'org)
(global-set-key “\C-cl” 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key “\C-ca” 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key “\C-cc” 'org-capture)
(global-set-key “\C-cb” 'org-switchb)
;; configuring org-roam
(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-roam-mode)
(setq org-roam-directory “~/data/org-roam”)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n r”) #'org-roam-buffer-toggle-display)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n i”) #'org-roam-insert)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n /”) #'org-roam-find-file)
Do you happen to have an old hang-over “customize.el” or something automatically generated by Emacs customization somewhere in your HOME or .emacs.d? This might be overriding your init file.
This is my Ubuntu Emacs config (init.el) in its entirety. I just upgraded packages from MELPA (on July 1st 2020). Note the custom-set-variables part. Perhaps you have a separate file (like .emacs directly in your HOME?) that contains custom variables with some config in it.
You can see my Org-roam is working (only sample notes).
org-roam-capture starts without an error
Thanks again for helping so much - your question about the order of calls was a big help.
I’d tried installing back in February (before it was available on Melba) with no luck - no patience was probably more like it. This time after trying to stick it into my old init.el, I added a new user “roam” and, following the hints in the Troubleshooting article, created an ultra-minimal init.el that installed org-roam and loaded it OK. Copying that over, I added other configurations (suppressing splash, menus, scrolls, toolbars, adding org-journal and typopunct to give me “smart typography” in markdown mode.
This is what I ended up with that all seems to work. I might someday try to determine what the general rules are for structuring an init.el for org-roam - if I were a product manager that would be on the list for somebody (assuming that other people have problems installing org-roam successfully - I might be the only one). For now, everything I need to work on my writing plus org-roam seems to be working so I’ll get on with things. The following is the working init.el that I have (GNU EMACS 26.3 built two days ago on Ubuntu 18.04):
;; 20200701
(add-to-list 'load-path “~/.emacs.d/lisp”)
(add-to-list 'exec-path “/usr/bin/sqlite3”)
(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-roam-mode)
(setq org-roam-directory “~/data/org-roam”)
;; configure visual interface
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode -1)
(scroll-bar-mode -1)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t
inhibit-startup-echo-area-message t)
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(setq confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer nil)
;; configuring package
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'(“melpa-stable” . “https://stable.melpa.org/packages/”))
(package-initialize)
;; configuring org-mode
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'(“org” . “https://orgmode.org/elpa/”) t)
(require 'org)
(global-set-key “\C-cl” 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key “\C-ca” 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key “\C-cc” 'org-capture)
(global-set-key “\C-cb” 'org-switchb)
;; Configuring org-journal
(customize-set-variable 'org-journal-date-prefix “#+TITLE: “)
(customize-set-variable 'org-journal-file-format “%Y-%m-%d.org”)
(customize-set-variable 'org-journal-dir “~/data/davids/journal/”)
(customize-set-variable 'org-journal-date-format “%A, %d %B %Y”)
(global-set-key “\C-cnj” 'org-journal-new-entry)
;; configuring org-roam
(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-roam-mode)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n r”) #'org-roam-buffer-toggle-display)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n i”) #'org-roam-insert)
(global-set-key (kbd “C-c n /”) #'org-roam-find-file)
;; configure typopunct
(require 'typopunct)
(typopunct-change-language 'english t)
(add-hook 'markdown-mode-hook 'my-markdown-init)
(defun my-markdown-init ()
(require 'typopunct)
(typopunct-change-language 'english)
;; add more superscripts
(typopunct-mode 1))
(require 'iso-transl)
(iso-transl-define-keys
`((”^0” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2070)))
("^4" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2074)))
("^5" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2075)))
("^6" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2076)))
("^7" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2077)))
("^8" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2078)))
("^9" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2079)))
("^+" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x207A)))
("^-" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x207B)))
("^=" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x207C)))
("^(" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x207D)))
("^)" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x207E)))
("_0" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2080)))
("_1" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2081)))
("_2" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2082)))
("_3" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2083)))
("_4" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2084)))
(“5" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2085)))
(“6" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2086)))
(“7" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2087)))
(“8" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2088)))
(“9" . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x2089)))
("+” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x208A)))
("-” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x208B)))
("=” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x208C)))
("(” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x208D)))
(")” . ,(vector (decode-char 'ucs #x208E)))))
;; more stuff
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won’t work right.
'(package-selected-packages (quote (emacsql-sqlite org-roam markdown-mode))))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won’t work right.
)
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Happy that you got it all working. Congrats!
I could not help but notice that in your config:
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(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-roam-mode)appears twice
You might like to remove the one on Line 2 (which one should not really matter, I guess) to avoid confusion for future-self – keeping the one within the;; configuring org-roamsection seems to make it more human friendly -
You have the following part related to Org-mode; I don’t.
Judging from your comment that the loading sequence mattered, perhaps this part is related to the error you experienced (pure speculation based on the comparison with mine; I don’t know its intended purpose:
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'(“org” . “https://orgmode.org/elpa/”) t)
(require 'org)
You can disregard what I am saying here. The main thing is you got it working.
Cheers to that 
Thanks for catching that goof - one or the other “add-hook” statement isn’t necessary, for sure.
As for the “add-to-list”, that was added by package after I installed org-mode. I added the first statement (adding melpa-stable) to an empty init.el as my starting place, then did the ‘M-x package-install’ to install org-roam. I’ll leave them both in place for now - and consider commenting the second out if things start to go haywire.
Thanks again for all your help - I’m delighted to have it working now.
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