1.2 Installation

Important: If Org-mode is part of the Emacs distribution or an XEmacs package, please skip this section and go directly to Activation.

If you have downloaded Org-mode from the Web, you must take the following steps to install it: Go into the Org-mode distribution directory and edit the top section of the file Makefile. You must set the name of the Emacs binary (likely either emacs or xemacs), and the paths to the directories where local Lisp and Info files are kept. If you don't have access to the system-wide directories, create your own two directories for these files, enter them into the Makefile, and make sure Emacs finds the Lisp files by adding the following line to .emacs:

     (setq load-path (cons "~/path/to/lispdir" load-path))

XEmacs users now need to install the file noutline.el from the xemacs subdirectory of the Org-mode distribution. Use the command:

     make install-noutline

Now byte-compile and install the Lisp files with the shell commands:

     make
     make install

If you want to install the info documentation, use this command:

     make install-info

Then add to .emacs:

     ;; This line only if org-mode is not part of the X/Emacs distribution.
     (require 'org-install)