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From: Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to install contributions to org-mode such as org-contacts?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:23:05 +0200
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On 28 October 2011 14:07, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded and successfully installed the latest version org-mode (M-x =
org-version shows 7.7). I was hoping to get org-contacts with it, too, but =
when putting (require 'org-contacs) in .emacs, I obtain:
>
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/Users/mhofert=
/.emacs':
>
> File error: Cannot open load file, org-contacts
>
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
> cause of the error in your initialization file. =A0Start Emacs with
> the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
>
> Org-contacts is one of the contributions and can be found in org-7.7/cont=
rib.
> How can I install this org-mode contribution (on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with GNU=
 Emacs 23.3 (9.0))?
>
> I installed the latest org-mode version by setting (in ./Makefile):
>
> =A0EMACS=3D/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS//emacs
> =A0lispdir=3D/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/
> =A0infodir=3D/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info
>
> I checked the contribution README, but that didn't tell =A0me how to inst=
all org-mode ocntributions.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>


Marius,

Do you do what the fine manual suggests?:

If you plan to use code from the contrib subdirectory, do a similar
step for this directory:

     (setq load-path (cons "~/path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp" load-path))

http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html#Installation

Best,

Brian vdB