Re: [O] How to install contributions to org-mode such as org-contacts?

[Brian van den Broek]

On 28 October 2011 14:07, Marius Hofert <address@hidden> 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.  Start 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/contrib.
> 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):
>
>  EMACS=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS//emacs
>  lispdir=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/
>  infodir=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info
>
> I checked the contribution README, but that didn't tell  me how to install 
> 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