Hi,
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:14:37AM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Steven Buczkowski <steven.buczkow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Yup: apt-get will get you an ancient org-mode release.
>
> You probably ended up with a "frankenstein" org-mode install with bits
> and pieces coming from various places: I'd suggest doing "apt-get remove
> org-mode" to get rid of the ancient version and then reinstalling from
> the tar file - or, perhaps even better, the git repository: most of us
> have found that staying on the bleeding edge is a rewarding experience
> (even if an occasionally bloody :-) one - but that happens only
> rarely). And even if you run into trouble, with git it is easy to
> backtrack and use an official release. Make sure to follow to the
> letter the installation instructions in the manual in these cases.
I had the same problem on ubuntu. What I did was:
- I get org-mode from git and install it in my ~/emacs/org-mode directory.
$ cd ~/src/org-mode
$ make SHELL=/bin/bash prefix=/home/aitor/emacs/org-mode
$ make SHELL=/bin/bash prefix=/home/aitor/emacs/org-mode install
- In my .emacs, I have this:
(defun remove-org-dirs (dirs)
"remove all list elements containing the matching '/org$'"
(let ((result))
(dolist (dir dirs)
(unless (string-match "org\\'" dir)
(setq result (cons dir result))))
(nreverse result)))
(setq load-path (cons "~/emacs/org-mode/share/emacs/site-lisp"
(cons "~/emacs/org-contrib/lisp"
(remove-org-dirs load-path))))
The "remove-org-dirs" function removes any system directory for "org"
and thus makes sure that my copy of org-mode gets loaded.
Hope this helps,
aitor
