Re: LaTeX Export problem: cannot open load file: org-latex

[Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Hellebro <holken@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I'm using Org-mode version 6.25f on Ubuntu 8.10 with GNU Emacs 22.2.1.
> Emacs came with an older version of org-mode but I used the Makefile to
> install the newer version and most things seem to be working.
>
> But when I try to export to LaTeX (C-c C-e l or L) I get the following
> error message in the minibuffer: "Cannot open load file: org-latex".
> Indeed, I don't have any file named "org-latex" or "org-latex.el" on my
> system as it was not part of the org distribution. I'm an absolute
> elisp newbie but a grep shows that org-install.el references a file
> "org-latex.el".

With org-mode version 6.25f, the file org-export-latex.el was renamed to
org-latex.el. Off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of things
you might check:

1. If you look in the lisp subdirectory of the org distribution you
   downloaded, can you confirm that org-latex.el was byte-compiled as a
   result of the make process?

2. Check the directory where you installed the new org files (e.g.,
   /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp or somewhere else) to see if org-latex is
   was copied to that directory.

I'm sure others will be along with more concrete advice sometime soon.

Hope this helps,

Matt