I just installed notmuch and could index from the command line. I read from the Setup section of the "emacs tips" page ( notmuch@notmuchmail.org ) that integrating to emacs is as simple as (require 'notmuch). 1. First, I had a hard time to get the el files at all. I finally got them from github.com/chrisdone/notmuch.git. Is this ok? Where should I get them otherwise? 2. I put the git repot in ~/.emacs.d/includes/notmuch, and added that to my load-path: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/includes/notmuch") before the require line. Require seemed to work (besides this error message: "Symbol's value as variable is void: zenburn-blue") Anything wrong here? 3. Opening notmuch.el revealed that notmuch had to be built, with $ sudo make install-emacs. Unfortunately this yields: gauthier:~/.emacs.d/includes/notmuch $ sudo make install-emacs make -C .. install-emacs make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gauthier/.emacs.d/includes' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install-emacs'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gauthier/.emacs.d/includes' make: *** [install-emacs] Error 2 I am not sure why the makefile has "-C ..", but I am not either sure how to solve it. Where do I go from there?