Hi John. I've been doing the same for myself for a while. But now, I'm trying to install site wide. The advantage of installing to /net/share/emacs.... is to other users at my site. I am pretty sure that htmlize.el contrib is required to export formatted code as html, so, it kind of is a necessity. Ideas? Other guidance? Malcolm Cook Stowers Institute for Medical Research - Bioinformatics Kansas City, Missouri USA ________________________________ From: John Hendy [mailto:jw.hendy@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:17 AM To: Cook, Malcolm Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Orgmode] HOWTO?: make install contrib I don't install it (contrib) but just have this in .emacs: ------- ;; set load dirs and global config options (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.elisp/site-lisp/") (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.elisp/org.git/contrib/lisp/") ------- That way any miscellaneous .el files I want get put in ~/.elisp/site-lisp and contrib is linked to directly by my .emacs. Would this work for you or is there a certain advantage to "installing" to the actual tree (e.g. /usr/share/emacs...)? Hope that helps? John On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Cook, Malcolm > wrote: Is there a "blessed" mantra for installing the contents of contrib something perhapls like sudo make install-contrib prefix=/my/prefix Thanks! Malcolm Cook Stowers Institute for Medical Research - Bioinformatics Kansas City, Missouri USA _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode