[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: rel-0-9-1; installation problem

[David Kastrup]

Jeff Flowers <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> [Keeping bug-auctex copied]
> sorry I was getting bounces from that

I think it may have been by the recent distributed DNS cache poisoning
attack on the net.  I have seen it as well.

>> preview-latex.el [...] definitely is a new-style file, so it really
>> is likely that you manually installed it in the wrong place.  If
>> this guess is correct, can you remember what made you do so?
>> Advice on some web page, previous printouts from the manual, or
>> something that still is left in the current instructions?  Or was
>> this a "lucky guess" after the normal installation broke, and you
>> tried fixing it?  This would really be important to reconstruct:
>> even in case it can be called a "user error", we want to avoid
>> opportunities for them as much as possible, too.
>
> You are correct. I manually installed it in the wrong place. I saw
> that install was trying to put files in the preview subdirectory, so
> I guessed wrongly that preview-latex.el should go with them and put
> it there. I have manually moved it to site-lisp now, and as if by
> magic the icons appeared.

I'll put a warning in the installation instructions that moving
preview-latex.el around manually is a bad idea, and why.

Thanks for clarifying.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum