RE: startup error

[Drew Adams]

> After installing auto-install, I was getting the following 
> error while start
> my emacs with `--debug-init' option 
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE)
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil 
> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
> nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 10
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" nil t)
>   require(auto-install)
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/ting/.emacs" nil 
> t)  ; Reading at
> buffer position 1377
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/.emacs" 
> "/home/ting/.emacs" t t)
>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
> 
> How could I fix it?

It looks like you are trying to evaluate a buffer that contains not Emacs Lisp
but HTML or XML: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE). My guess is that you downloaded a
Web page, not the source file that the Web page linked to (somehow). Check the
content of your file auto-install.el - my guess is it is HTML.