Re: Problem opening wanderlust: can't load wl-news

[Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk>]

At Thu, 8 Apr 2010 05:01:45 -0400,
Chris Beard wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I've been trying to use Wanderlust, largely with instructions from
> http://box.matto.nl/emacsgmail.html
> 
> I have Aquamacs Emacs 1.9 on Mac OS 10.6,

I've not used Aquamacs before.

> and after working at it for a few hours, I finally discovered that I
> needed APEL, FLIM and SEMI, so I (believe I) installed apel 1.7,
> flim 1.14.9, and semi 1.14.6 (the latest versions that I was able to
> find). This fixed an earlier problem I had, but now when I try to
> open Wanderlust (M-x wl), it starts loading things up and concludes
> that
> 
> "Cannot open load file: wl-news"
> 
> Did I not install something correctly? Is there something I need to
> add to my .emacs file besides what is mentioned in the above link?

I notice that the page you refer to doesn't make any mention of
pointing Emacs to your wanderlust distribution. Do you have something
like:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/you/.emacs.d/wanderlust/elmo")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/you/.emacs.d/wanderlust/utils")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/you/.emacs.d/wanderlust/wl")
(setq wl-icon-directory "/Users/you/.emacs.d/wanderlust/etc/icons")

anywhere? (I'm not sure how M-x wl would work at all without any of
this anyway.)

> I tried it with Wanderlust 2.14 and then later a newer version dated
> 17 Mar 2010, but without success.
> 
Are you using the CVS version?

In your wanderlust/wl/ directory you should have a file called
wl-news.el.
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