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All I'm trying to do is to create a slideshow presentation from Org mode.
As everyone does, I googled to get a few links.
I followed this link to write Non-Beamer presentations, as I thought presenting over a web browser would be a cool thing to do (maximum portability).
I chose to go with

org-html5presentation

Is an Exporter of Org-mode documents to HTML5 slide show presentations. (see gist.github.com/509761 for code and usage information)

Even though the instructions are simple as follows:

  1. First of all, check your Org-mode version. Note: This library has been tested on Org-mode 8.2.5h. M-x org-version

  2. Get org-html5presentation.el. For example,
    git clone https://github.com/kinjo/org-html5presentation.el.git \
    ~/org-html5presentation.el

  3. Add following to ~/.emacs.d/init.el and reboot emacs.
    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/org-html5presentation.el")
    (require 'ox-html5presentation)

I did not know how to do Step-2 above
I copy pasted the org-html5presentation.el lisp code into file with name org-html5presentation.el and saved it in some folder and added the path as requested in Step-3.

Nothing has worked so far. I get the error "Cannot open load file :org-html5presentation"

What am I missing here?

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load-path is the list of directories, not files. If you want to add this file, use in ~/.emacs.d/init.el

(load-file "~/org-html5presentation.el")
(require 'ox-html5presentation)

Better way is to put the file into ~/emacs.d/org-html5presentation/org-html5presentation.el and then put the ~/.emacs.d/org-html5presentation/ into load-path writing in ~/.emacs.d/init.el

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/org-html5presentation/")
(require 'ox-html5presentation)

or load just one file with

(load-file "~/.emacs.d/org-html5presentation/org-html5presentation.el")
(require 'ox-html5presentation)
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  • your answer load-path is the list of directories, not files was bang on. Thanks for the excellent answer
    – Prasanna
    Jul 13, 2016 at 1:49
  • even though the error is gone - i'm unable to get the org mode file contents as html presentation - Any ideas why?
    – Prasanna
    Jul 13, 2016 at 18:13
  • It's the point of another question. But it needs more information about the problem: what are in the output of the program, messages, etc. Jul 13, 2016 at 18:18

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