Thanks, that worked. However, I already had done the standard uninstall/remove for both through "Ubuntu Software Center". Maybe have a note of warning on your webpage about Ubuntu's woes. . . .

Thanks again.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Stas Boukarev <stassats@gmail.com> wrote:
Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeingplan9@gmail.com> writes:

> I've got this error when I M-x slime for the first time:
>
>  LOAD: A file with name
>       /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp does not exist
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and have clisp installed through/as an Ubuntu package;
> otherwise, I'm using your latest (slime-2012-02-09). Any ideas what I've
> done wrong?
Purge previous installations of slime, dpkg --purge slime cl-swank
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With best regards, Stas.