Re: org-version reported as 6.33x after upgrading to the "latest and greatest" with Emacs' Package Manager

[Sankalp <sankalpkhare@gmail.com>]

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On 30 January 2012 19:15, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Emacs 23.2.1 (bundled with Ubuntu 11.04), and until now I
> > was running the org-mode package that came with it (6.33x). Today I
> > decided to update to the latest org version, and I followed the
> > instructions at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#installing-via-elpa
> >
> > When I do M-x locate-library RET org I get:
> > Library is file ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20120129/org.elc
> >
> > which looks good, but if I do M-x org-version I get:
> > Org-mode version 6.33x
>

Try going to the *scratch* buffer, doing an M-x load-library org and
evaluating the value of the sexp "org-version" (using C-j with the cursor
placed immediately after it).
Does that give you a different result, or is it still 6.33x?


> >
> > In my .emacs file I have
> > ;; Org-mode
> > ;;********************************************
> > (require 'org-install)
> > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
> > (define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
> > (define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
> > (define-key global-map "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
> > (global-font-lock-mode 1)
> > (setq org-log-done t)
> >
> > and at the end of the file
> >
> > (setq load-path (cons "~/Emacs-custom" load-path))
> > (require 'package)
> > (package-initialize)
> >
> > Did I miss something else that I should do? I was planning on getting
> > rid of the version that comes with Emacs, but I thought I should ask
> > first...
>

If you get the newer org installed and running,  I don't see a reason to
manually "remove" the one that comes with Emacs, unless you've got space
issues.


> 1. Did you restart Emacs?
> 2. If you remove (require 'org-install) does it help?
> 3. Emacs-24.1 (currently in pre-test) has the latest and greatest Org.
>
> > Thanks,
>
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