ro> ro> Could someone tell me if this works in Poitou? What do I have to do ro> to get it to work? You need Pyrenean-pre4 available from cvs + Jan's jumbo patch (which includes a few of mine) for this to really work. Sorry. ro> I have been updating the package by hand and would ro> like to be able to get them automatically. yup, this is painful by hand but on the bright side things aren't changing too fast these days.. ;-) ro> I haven't tried this as ro> root but it seems logical that I'd have to be root to do it as I can't ro> write to the /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/ directory as user ro> rebecca. You installed XEmacs there as root? Then you'd need to be root to install packages too, unless you configured package-path somewhere writable by user rebecca. Greg