Upgrade org-mode with Aquamacs

Question

As is asked and answered in here, Aquamacs has the org-mode that is pretty old, and there are some problems with capturing.

How can I upgrade the org-mode with Aquamacs? Is it OK just copy lisp/*.el to somewhere?

Answer 1

You can put the .el files pretty much where you want to, but you'll need to add the directory to your emacs load-path with something like:

(setq load-path (cons "~/path/to/orgdir/lisp" load-path))

Stick that in your .emacs file.

There's more info on the org-mode installation page.

Answer 2

Let me summarize the steps I carried out eventually, to use the package manager. Note, I am using emacs 23 based editor which was shipped with org-mode 6.33.

Install the package manager

• Download the packages.el file from here. Save in in ~/Library/elisp for example.

• Add the following code to the .emacs:

  (setq load-path (cons "~/Library/elisp" load-path)) (require 'package) (package-initialize)

Verify

To verify this part, in emacs hit M-x list-packages RET org. Here you should see a list of optional packages. Note: you may ignore the warning: failed to download org-mode archive.

Updating org-mode

• Enter the list-packages Hit M-x list-packages RET.
• In there mark for installation by i the org package and the x for the actual installation.

  Restart emacs

Verify

Hit M-x locate-library RET org to verify the installation. You should now have org-mode up and running.

Answer 3

I found this slightly more helpful snippet from the EmacsWiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CustomizeAquamacs):

Upgrading org-mode or other major-modes in Aquamacs

Edit the Makefile to set variables as follows, before “make” and “make install”:

    # Name of your emacs binary
    EMACS=/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs

    # Where local lisp files go.
    lispdir   = /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp 

    # Where info files go.
    infodir = /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/info

--D.H. Ardell