Thanks for your help. I had failed to include (package-initialize) in my
.emacs which was why 8.0.4 was not working.

Problem solved!


On 16 July 2013 17:06, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Paul Whipp <paul.whipp@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > If I use the package installer to upgrade org I get version 8.0.4 but
> > it then fails to complete my initialisation with: "Symbol's function
> > definition is void: org-defvaralias"
>
> Please share the parts of your configuration that are relevant to
> this, e.g. your package initialization and your Org initialization.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>