To perform setup run the following. Make sure that you have a good version of Ruby installed. If in doubt on osx install macports, and then install ruby using macports, then add the following to the .bash_profile export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH Then sudo gem install soloist git clone git@github.com:jimmytommy/jt_setup.git cd jt_setup git submodule init git submodule update ---- Then for the full setup run soloist ---- For just emacs run soloist workstation::emacs ---- Emacs >=24 required for all the emacs goodness