E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized

Solution 1:

I was running into this problem just now, too. I had my call pathogen#infect() line in my .vimrc just fine, but was getting the

E185: Cannot find color scheme solarized

error, like you. I moved my call pathogen#infect() up to the top of my .vimrc and all is swell now. Try that if you're still having problems!

Solution 2:

I know that it is kind of obvious, but did you check the contents of ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized? Just in case you are running in the same issue described in Vim: Pathogen not loading