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From: Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Re: canonical modifications to makefile for ubuntu feisty emacs
 22.1.1?
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Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 10:42 AM:
> Hi all,
> 
> In addition to being pretty new to org-mode, I'm also an emacs novice. I 
> am running ubuntu feisty with emacs 22.1.1 from the feisty backports 
> repository.
> 
> At some point, I made a mess of things in upgrading org-mode; stupidly I 
> sometimes modified the makefile so as to install the local lisp files to 
> a local lisp tree ~/emacs/site-lisp (loaded by my .emacs) and sometimes 
> so that they ended up in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. My bad.

<snip>

> Could someone with a similar OS/emacs combo please suggest what's the 
> right thing to do?


Hi all,

I got a couple of off-list replies. I summarize them here for future 
googlers :-)

Both replies suggested that ~/emacs/site-lisp was probably the right 
thing. (You can ensure that works by including a line like
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/brian/emacs/site-lisp")
early in your .emacs.)

The really helpful bit was reminding me that I ought to run the make 
dance as me, rather than by sudo'ing. This will ensure that the 
process will only work if I am indeed installing into my local directory.

Thanks to those who wrote,

Brian vdB