Cannot install MELPA package in Emacs

Question

I'm new to emacs and trying to install the smartparens package from MELPA. I have the package installed (I'm pretty sure)

The next step in the docs is to run (require 'smartparens-config). I put this in my ~/.emacs, but it doesn't seem to work. I also tried M-x require 'smartparens-config, but it says there is [No match] for require. Not sure how to proceed here

Answer 1

You should include (package-initialize) in your init file, before you're calling (require 'smartparens-config)