Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday, 26 Aug 2014 at 19:40, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> This has been probably been asked many times before but auntie google
>> can't find it if so.
>
> It has been asked many times. :)
>
>> I've just updated my git clone of org-mode to its version
>> '409913b253de2de1b49f9468a4b77b9292e090c4' from 'ORIG_HEAD' and I've
>> done
>>
>> M-x org-version
>>
>>
>> which now shows
>>
>> ╭────
>> │Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-1 @ /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.93/lisp/org/)
>> ╰────
>>
>> How do I drop the debian version and stick with the git version please?
>
> I have pretty much what you have:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/lisp")
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/contrib/lisp/")
>   (require 'org)
> #+end_src
>
> and this works fine.  These lines come before anything that may
> reference org in any way, mind you.

Thanks for this Eric.

I've now set up my init with your little stanza in, evaluated it,
restarted org-mode and did version on it. And its showing -

╭────
│Org-mode version 8.2.7c (release_8.2.7c-53-g409913 @ /home/boudiccas/git/org-mode/lisp/)
╰────

Hooray! Result! Thanks :)

Sharon.
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