> > emacs-install emacs19 > > emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 > > emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 > > Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you > using for instaling new packages)? > > Bilbo
This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, where the old EMACSLOADPATH from the user account was being used. --David