David Kropman <dkropman(a)truworths.co.za&gt; writes: I suggest patching up to 21.0.62. That contains some improvements to the package code. You also need the 'efs' package if you want to bootstrap. Alternatively you can download a SUMO tarball. > But my big question is what do I do with the packages > and the others that I have downloaded like cc-mode etc? Untar them in ../lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages Or use M-x package-admin-add-binary-package. In theory you could also Startup the bare XEmacs. type M-x pui-add-install-directory and give the directory where you download the packages (you also need to have the package-index.LATEST.pgp in that directory then). Then type M-x pui-list-packages. No. Only mule-base is needed if you compile with MULE. That's outdated, See the XEmacs info file. The 'Startup paths' and 'Packages' sections. I'm afraid the documentation still needs a lot of updating. Jan