Re: tramp not loading (?)

[Chris McMahan]

In a similar thread...

Has ANYONE managed to get tramp to work with Cygwin on an XP box using
the non-cygwin version of emacs?

- Chris


Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> ken wrote:
>  > Starting over.  I removed (by hand) the tramp2 installed earlier and
>  > installed (from tramp.el):
>  >
>  > ;; Version: $Id: tramp.el,v 2.95 2002/04/10 17:16:25 kaig Exp $
>  >
>  > Untarred under my home, then copied them to the traditional place for a
>  > system-wide install:
>  >
>  > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp # ll
>  > total 264
>  > drwxr-x---  2 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:43 .
>  > drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:42 ..
>  > -rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   1953 Mar  3  2002 tramp-util.el
>  > -rw-r-----  1 6104 6100  19658 Dec 29  2001 tramp-vc.el
>  > -rw-r-----  1 6104 6100 225748 Apr 10  2002 tramp.el
>  > -rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   3480 Feb 28  2001 trampcache.el
>  >
>  > Put this into my ~/.emacs:
>  >
>  > (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp/")
>  > (require 'tramp)   ;errors out
>  >
>  > Put the point after the closing paren of each line and did "C-x C-e"
>  >
>  > The first properly displayed the load-path in the echo area, but the
>  > second yeilded this pile of confusion:
>  >
>  > <snip>
>  > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
>    "tramp")
>  >   require(tramp)
>  >   eval((require (quote tramp)))
>  >   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>  >   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>  >   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
>
> Is your uid 6104 or your gid 6100?  Because that is the only user and
> group allowed to read the tramp*.el files in your
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp directory.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers
>
>
>

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