Trouble installing simple emacs tool

Question

Using the latest emacs 24.3 I want rainbow parenthesis for my lisp editing. I'm following the instructions on this page.

Here is what I get after I setup everything:

File error: Cannot open load file, rainbow-delimiters

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.

The byte compile proceded fine and created a .elc file. Is there a missing step in the instructions? How would emacs know where this compiled is located if there is no path mentioned anywhere in the .emacs file?

Answer 1

Not a direct answer I'm afraid but I would recommend watching this as rainbow-delimiters is available in MELPA and this will make managing Emacs extensions MUCH easier.