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3.1 Installing a release

Choose to install a release if you want to minimize risk.

Errors are corrected in development first. Once fixes are confirmed, a new release will be made. User-visible changes will be announced on the [email protected] mailing list. see Getting Help and Reporting Bugs.

Debian users can get emacs-wiki via apt-get. The version of emacs-wiki in the Debian stable archive is not recommended, since it is so old. emacs-wiki is available in the Sarge and Sid distributions: apt-get install emacs-wiki .

You can also install the source distribution.

  1. Download and unpack the latest version from http://www.mwolson.org/static/dist/emacs-wiki/ .
  2. Edit your ~/.emacs. 
              ;; Add the directories to your load path
          (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/emacs-wiki")
          ;; Load emacs-wiki
          (require 'emacs-wiki)

You can download the archive at the following locations: