Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > Johnny <yggdra...@gmx.co.uk> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I just upgraded to org-mode 7.8.03 (from 7.6) and now get this error >> message when trying to use the org-odt converter. With version 7.6, I used >> org-odt from contrib and that worked fine, so what is the reason for >> this error? >> >> I did see another post about this about installing "style files", but >> what are these and how do I install them? > > It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an > easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt > auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention. > > Please provide me information on > - how you downloaded the Org (git? tar file? elpa?)
I pulled the latest git version. > - how did you compile. Did you do a make? Did you change the Makefile at > all? > - how did you install. Did you do a make install? Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share direcory. > - What OS/Distrib are you using Fedora 16. > > Do you see debug messages from the org-odt module in the *Messages* > buffer. They will look something similar to this - one for schema files > and one for styles files. > > ,---- > | Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files... > | Debug (org-odt): Trying c:/Documents and Settings/kjambunathan/My > Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/... > | Debug (org-odt): Using styles under c:/Documents and > Settings/kjambunathan/My Documents/My Data/src/org-mode/etc/styles/ > `---- Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files... Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/local/share/emacs/etc/styles/... Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode/etc/styles/... Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/23.3/etc/org/... byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting. Maybe I should tell org-odt to search for a libreoffice directory instead? > >> Thanks for any help (and thanks for the exporter!)! -- Johnny
