From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The Org Package
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:04:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8661mayw9t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2lhv8g41j.fsf@tsdye.com
tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-12 2:32 The Org Package David Masterson
2014-04-12 2:39 ` John Hendy
2014-04-12 4:10 ` David Masterson
2014-04-12 6:01 ` Jacek Generowicz
2014-04-12 20:07 ` John Hendy
2014-04-15 2:05 ` adam
2014-04-13 1:41 ` Grant Rettke
2014-04-13 7:05 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-13 7:14 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-13 22:27 ` David Masterson
2014-04-14 0:15 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-16 0:04 ` David Masterson [this message]
2014-04-16 16:35 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-14 16:16 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-17 11:38 ` Bastien
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