How to load and use a package

GROUPS:
 Many apologies for another newbie question but what do I do with a package and where do I put it so that it will load and be usable?  I want to use Combinatorica and I have saved NewCombinatorica.m in several places, mostly hanging off my main Mathematica program files directory and given them various names but no attempt to load the package has yet been successful.  I get a msg Get::noopen: "Cannot open \!$$\"Combinatorica\"$$."  (or something similar, depending on the filename I use).
2 months ago
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 When I write packages, I usually put them in the AddOns/Applications folder.
2 months ago
Also see the discussion about possible locations for packages in earlier posts on this group and also covered in the attached tutorial that I have posted a couple fo times (but which i burried in an old post by this point):
 Attachments: Building Packages Tutorial.nb
2 months ago
Many thanks for the replies.  I've put Combinatorica in AddOns/Applications as suggested and it looks like something is making sense to Mathematica as I now get a stream of erro rmessages (attached).  I realise I'm trying to run before I walk here, having only ever used Mathematica interactively rather than with programs and data but I really haven't got a clue how to proceed or what help and various tutorials are telling me.

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