t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: > David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: >> >>> David Masterson writes: >>>> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >>>> understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like >>>> something doesn't match up -- particularly with the Org package: >>>> >>>> 1. Most modern Emacs have Org pre-installed. >>>> 2. Unfortunately, that Org is not up-to-date (24.3 has 7.9.3f). >>>> 3. Therefore, installing the latest Org package seems natural. >>> >>> The pitfall here is that you _must_ do the first install of the Org >>> package from an Emacs that didn't load any part of the built-in Org. >> >> What does this mean? Does this mean you expect people to build Emacs >> from scratch just to ensure they do not have Org built-in? > > I believe it means the installation must be done from an Emacs instance > that hasn't loaded any Org mode functions yet. > > You must make sure there are no =Org-mode= functions loaded while > the update is done. For that, exit Emacs and then run Emacs without > loading your =.emacs= (=Emacs -Q=). Remove the old =Org-mode= > #+BEGIN_SRC sh > rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-Tab > #+END_SRC > where =Tab= means press =Tab= to see and auto complete the old > =Org-mode= directory you want to remove. Finally, update =Org-mode= > (=M-x package-install RET org RET=) and restart Emacs as usual. > > See http://nickhigham.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/emacs-org-mode-version-8/
Hmmm. I would think that this process might work as well: 1. Start with "emacs -Q" 2. Bring up the Emacs Packages list 3. Mark the "available" org for "U"pgrade 4. Execute the upgrade 5. Restart Emacs The only question is what about the built-in Org? -- David Masterson Programmer At Large
