Just helped a friend to install and upgrade to latest org. Method summary: $ git clone $ make update combined with setup of load-paths
Ended with: ox-odt cannot find factory style files I remember that I too had this problem http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-07/msg00341.html and it had recently disappeared. Checked that it comes back it I use emacs23; goes away if I use emacs24 Checked that the messages when it works in emacs24 are like thus: Debug (ox-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files... Debug (ox-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/etc/org/styles/... [2 times] Debug (ox-odt): Trying ~/pdsw/etc/styles/... Debug (ox-odt): Trying ~/pdsw/org-mode/lisp/etc/styles/... Debug (ox-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/org/... Debug (ox-odt): Using styles under /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/org/ Debug (ox-odt): Searching for OpenDocument schema files... Debug (ox-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/etc/org/schema/... [2 times] Debug (ox-odt): No OpenDocument schema files installed So evidently my 'working' odt export is working because its using the builtin emacs odt exporter and not the latest one Looking at org-odt-* stuff I see almost a dozen files and directories and file lists and what not. All attempts so far at doing (setq org-odt-styles-dir "~/pdsw/org-mode/etc/styles") in various places, hooks etc have not changed the fact that it gets the builtin one