Re: symbol's value as variable is void: allow-remote-paths

On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Michael Sperber wrote: > > Richard Cook <rcook(a)llnl.gov&gt; writes: > >> Hi, I compiled xemacs myself and installed into $HOME/xemacs-without-ipv6-cname >> I then made a symlink of $HOME/xemacs-without-ipv6-cname/bin/xemacs to $HOME/bin/xemacs >> I untarred the sumo tarball from http://*ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo-2009-02-17.tar.gz and untarred it into $HOME/xemacs-without-ipv6-cname/lib/xemacs, which made a directory called xemacs-packages there. >> When I run xemacs, I am not able to update my packages. >> I go to Tools -> Packages -> Set Download Site -> Official Releases -> US and choose US Main. >> I then go "update package index" or any other command in the Tools menu about Packages and it complains: "symbol's value as variable is void: allow-remote-paths" >> Can anyone help me with this? Thanks. > > It probably can't find the EFS package, which is needed to download > anything. What version of XEmacs is this? If it's 21.5, the packages > need to go into share/xemacs, not lib/xemacs. If it's not (or problems > persist), please run xemacs -debug-paths and post the output. > Are you sure? I followed the instructions on http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html, which say to put it into lib/xemacs. <quote> The Sumo Tarball Those with little time, cheap connections and plenty of disk space can install all packages at once using the Sumo tarballs. Download the file xemacs-sumo-<date>.tar.gz from the FTP site. For an XEmacs compiled with Mule you also need xemacs-mule-sumo-<date>.tar.gz Note: They are called 'Sumo Tarballs' for good reason. They are currently about 21MB and 6MB (gzipped) respectively. Install them by cd $prefix/lib/xemacs ; gunzip -c <tarballname> | tar xf - </quote> The bit about being huge because they are 21MB might be obsolete by now. :-) -- ✐Richard Cook ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 --- Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)