byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Johnny]

Hi,

I just upgraded to org-mode 7.8.03 (from 7.6) and now get this error
message when trying to use the org-odt converter. With version 7.6, I used
org-odt from contrib and that worked fine, so what is the reason for
this error?

I did see another post about this about installing "style files", but
what are these and how do I install them?

Thanks for any help (and thanks for the exporter!)!

-- 
Johnny

Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Jambunathan K]

Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to org-mode 7.8.03 (from 7.6) and now get this error
> message when trying to use the org-odt converter. With version 7.6, I used
> org-odt from contrib and that worked fine, so what is the reason for
> this error?
>
> I did see another post about this about installing "style files", but
> what are these and how do I install them?

It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an
easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt
auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention.

Please provide me information on 
- how you downloaded the Org (git? tar file? elpa?)
- how did you compile. Did you do a make? Did you change the Makefile at
  all?
- how did you install. Did you do a make install?
- What OS/Distrib are you using

Do you see debug messages from the org-odt module in the *Messages*
buffer. They will look something similar to this - one for schema files
and one for styles files.

,----
| Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files...
| Debug (org-odt): Trying c:/Documents and Settings/kjambunathan/My Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/...
| Debug (org-odt): Using styles under c:/Documents and Settings/kjambunathan/My Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/
`----

> Thanks for any help (and thanks for the exporter!)!

-- 

Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Johnny]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just upgraded to org-mode 7.8.03 (from 7.6) and now get this error
>> message when trying to use the org-odt converter. With version 7.6, I used
>> org-odt from contrib and that worked fine, so what is the reason for
>> this error?
>>
>> I did see another post about this about installing "style files", but
>> what are these and how do I install them?
>
> It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an
> easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt
> auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention.
>
> Please provide me information on 
> - how you downloaded the Org (git? tar file? elpa?)

I pulled the latest git version.

> - how did you compile. Did you do a make? Did you change the Makefile at
>   all?
> - how did you install. Did you do a make install?

Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share direcory.

> - What OS/Distrib are you using

Fedora 16.

>
> Do you see debug messages from the org-odt module in the *Messages*
> buffer. They will look something similar to this - one for schema files
> and one for styles files.
>
> ,----
> | Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files...
> | Debug (org-odt): Trying c:/Documents and Settings/kjambunathan/My Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/...
> | Debug (org-odt): Using styles under c:/Documents and Settings/kjambunathan/My Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/
> `----

Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files...
Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/local/share/emacs/etc/styles/...
Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode/etc/styles/...
Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/23.3/etc/org/...
byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

Maybe I should tell org-odt to search for a libreoffice directory
instead?

>
>> Thanks for any help (and thanks for the exporter!)!

-- 
Johnny

Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Eric S Fraga]

Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> Please provide me information on 
>> - how you downloaded the Org (git? tar file? elpa?)
>
> I pulled the latest git version.
>
>> - how did you compile. Did you do a make? Did you change the Makefile at
>>   all?
>> - how did you install. Did you do a make install?
>
> Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share
> direcory.

The problem is that if you don't use the "make install" command, the
installed files don't know where to look for the etc/styles directory!

If you use "make install" with the appropriate "--prefix", you should be
okay.  Or, at least, that's my understanding from a quick look at the
Makefile... ;-)

HTH,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.92.1
: using Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.136.ge2707)

Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Jambunathan K]

Hello Johnny

>> It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an
>> easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt
>> auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention.
>
> Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share
> direcory.

You MUST NOT copy files by hand. You MUST use 'make install' to copy the
files.

There are two variables - lispdir and datadir - that determine where the
lisp and styles files go. Here is the unmodified Makefile.

,---- Makefile
| # Where local software is found
| prefix=/usr/local
| 
| # Where local lisp files go
| lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
| 
| # Where data files go
| # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
| # See comments under DATAFILES.
| datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
`----

If you do M-x locate-library RET org-odt RET on your current
installation, you are likely to see the following message:
,----
| Library is file "/usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode" as directory.
`----

Based on the above setting, you can modify the default lispdir as
follows:

,---- Makefile
| # Where local lisp files go
| lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/org-mode <================
| 
| # Where data files go
| # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
| # See comments under DATAFILES.
| datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
`----

The style files will then get automatically get copied to
/usr/local/share/emacs/etc.

It's NOT important what the values for lispdir and datadir are. What is
VERY IMPORTANT is that you use "make install" to copy the files.

>
>> - What OS/Distrib are you using
>
> Fedora 16.

I am on Windows. I don't use any of the Gnu/Linuxes.

I am not sure what Fedora policy for installation is. May be org-7.8.03
hasn't hit Fedora yet and that's the reason why you chose to download
and install by hand.

FYI, Gentoo uses the following values for lispdir and datadir.
prefix = /usr
lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/
datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/

See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-12/msg00800.html.
-- 

Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Johnny]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Johnny
>
>>> It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an
>>> easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt
>>> auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention.
>>
>> Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share
>> direcory.
>
> You MUST NOT copy files by hand. You MUST use 'make install' to copy the
> files.
>
> There are two variables - lispdir and datadir - that determine where the
> lisp and styles files go. Here is the unmodified Makefile.
>
> ,---- Makefile
> | # Where local software is found
> | prefix=/usr/local
> | 
> | # Where local lisp files go
> | lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
> | 
> | # Where data files go
> | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
> | # See comments under DATAFILES.
> | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
> `----
>
> If you do M-x locate-library RET org-odt RET on your current
> installation, you are likely to see the following message:
> ,----
> | Library is file "/usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode" as directory.
> `----
>
> Based on the above setting, you can modify the default lispdir as
> follows:
>
> ,---- Makefile
> | # Where local lisp files go
> | lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/org-mode <================
> | 
> | # Where data files go
> | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
> | # See comments under DATAFILES.
> | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
> `----
>
> The style files will then get automatically get copied to
> /usr/local/share/emacs/etc.
>
> It's NOT important what the values for lispdir and datadir are. What is
> VERY IMPORTANT is that you use "make install" to copy the files.
>
>>
>>> - What OS/Distrib are you using
>>
>> Fedora 16.
>
> I am on Windows. I don't use any of the Gnu/Linuxes.
>
> I am not sure what Fedora policy for installation is. May be org-7.8.03
> hasn't hit Fedora yet and that's the reason why you chose to download
> and install by hand.
>
> FYI, Gentoo uses the following values for lispdir and datadir.
> prefix = /usr
> lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/
> datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/
>
> See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-12/msg00800.html.

Thanks Jambunathan and Eric for your advice! This seems completely
reasonable and a self induced error; I will try reinstall with this
method in a couple of days and improve my makefile-editing / git
updating skills! 

Cheers
-- 
Johnny