Thanks Pete; On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 23:13 +0000, Pete Phillips wrote: > Hi Bill > > >>>>> "William" == William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > William> The script downloaded things successfully and opened all?? > William> files in /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org with a link to org-5.17a > > William> I would just install from a tarball, but I am still > William> uncertain exactly which directory I want to copy to, unzip > William> and make from. The only 'org' file I have is > William> /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/textmodes/org.elc > > I'm confused. > > How can the script have worked and compiled but not left an org.elc in > /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org ? > > Can you tell me whether the compile worked ? has it left an org.elc in > /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org ? > Yes. /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org/org..elc exists.
> Also, have you added a line to your .emacs along the lines of > > (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bill/emacs/lisp/org/") No. But I do have (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) as was recommended. Org-4.67 worked with that line. I replaced '(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) with "(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bill/emacs/lisp/org/")" and version 5.17a now opens. > > If not, that would explain why it is not loading up. > > For the permissions stuff, I'm guessing here, but if you untarred it as > root, root will restore the files with the original permissions, not > yours. > > Try removing /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org-5.17a, and > /home/bill/emacs/lisp/org, and running as yourself, not root. > I just did. All the permissions are now correct. I am going to have to really dig into this. It is working as a result of following "button-push" instructions (and I thank you for that), but I really don't understand what is going on. No response needed; more of a note to myself. -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode