Holger Schauer <Holger.Schauer(a)gmx.de&gt; writes: Yes that is where they should go. In practice however this is what pacakge-get.el uses If it was installed before --> put it in the same location, otherwise If mule package --> put it where mule-base is. Other wise --> put it where xemacs-base is. If xemacs-base is not found --> put it in (last late-packages). If you have a normal package tree (last late-packages) is "xemacs-packages". Did you restart XEmacs so it found xemacs-base? What does (package-admin-get-install-dir 'unkown) say. Jan P.S. It maybe a problem that the directory is named "packages" (as that is an old name for the package tree and 21.1.x still picks that up).