[Orgmode] Re: Installing Orgmode through ELPA-tarball

[Jambunathan K]

Martin

A small addtion:

> Possible Root Cause:
> ===================
>
> There is a comment in the package manager that there is a dependency on
> GNU tar. May be the tar binary that you are running is not "GNU tar
> compatible"
>
> Just to confirm, copy the below elisp code to scratch buffer and do a
> C-x C-e with cursor before the marker '@'.
>
> (progn
>   (setq default-directory "~/tmp/")
>   (package-read-from-string
>    (shell-command-to-string
>     ;; Requires GNU tar.
>     (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))) @
>
> What do you get?

Before doing C-x C-e, change the "~/tmp/" and "org-20101101" to whatever
is right in your setup.

Jambunathan K.