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I am running Ubuntu 14.04. I don't use emacs from its repository.

I installed my emacs by compling from source, the default location is /usr/local. e.g. /usr/local/bin/emacsand /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/.

I installed ESS from its offical site. The default install location is /usr e.g. /usr/share/emacs/. I don't find a way to specify --prefix for ESS. I run make install directly.

So in my emacs, I can't find S mode.

What shall I do?

Shall I reinstall emacs with ./configure --prefix=/usr? Generally speaking, should installation from source be in /usr or /usr/local?

Thanks!

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  • Either reinstall ESS and tell it to use your preferred directory, or else add ESS's directory to your loadpath.
    – Dan ♦
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:07
  • I don't find a way to specify --prefix for ESS. I run make install directly.
    – Tim
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:18
  • You can always use (load "path/to/ess-site") but the default location should be checked by any emacs, built from source or not. Have you done (load "ess-site") first? (ESS is a bit old fashioned).
    – VitoshKa
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:45
  • Correction: Ubuntu default instal checks /usr/local/ but the one built from source does not.
    – VitoshKa
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 22:55
  • @VitoshKa: Thanks (1) What do you mean by ess-site? I have three files with that name: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-site.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site.elc. (2) What do you mean by "Ubuntu default instal checks /usr/local/ but the one built from source does not"? and are you talking about ESS?
    – Tim
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 23:02

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One easy option is to change the default DESTDIR directly in the Makeconf.

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You can try downloading the ESS tgz file, unpack it in a directory of choice (for example, I put it in .emacs.d) and then add

(load "~/.emacs.d/ess-15.09-2/lisp/ess-site")

to your .emacs file. No need to recompile anything in this way.

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  • Compiling is optional but reference documentation is not available
    – par
    Commented Jan 12, 2017 at 10:11
  • But where is that .emacs file that you add this text to?
    – ch-pub
    Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 6:32
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    @ClarkHenry the .emacs file (also called init file) is always in your home directory
    – point618
    Commented Dec 28, 2017 at 17:05

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