To load the most recent org.el, always put it in the same location and add this location to your load-path in ~/.emacs: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/testing/org/") Then doing a simple (require 'org-install) somewhere after this should do the trick. It will override any org.el that you might already have in your .../emacs/lisp/ directory. HTH, -- Bastien