New to emacs customization . Help please.

[icebowl]

I'm new to emacs configuration.
I created a init.ep file at ~/.emacs.d$

contents from melpa: (https://melpa.org/#/solarized-theme)
(require 'package)
(let* ((no-ssl (and (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
(not (gnutls-available-p))))
(proto (if no-ssl "http" "https")))
(when no-ssl
(warn "
Your version of Emacs does not support SSL connections,
which is unsafe because it allows man-in-the-middle attacks.
There are two things you can do about this warning:

1. Install an Emacs version that does support SSL and be safe.
2. Remove this warning from your init file so you won't see it again."))
   ;; Comment/uncomment these two lines to enable/disable MELPA and MELPA Stable as desired
   (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa" (concat proto "://melpa.org/packages/")) t)
   ;;(add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa-stable" (concat proto "://stable.melpa.org/packages/")) t
   )
   (when (< emacs-major-version 24)
   ;; For important compatibility libraries like cl-lib
   (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "gnu" (concat proto "://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))))
   (package-initialize)

???
I tried package-install solarized-theme (NO LUCK)

[innerout]

I think you are missing a backslash in (warn " when it should be (warn "\
Also did you run M-x list-packages before running package-install solarized-theme?