From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: suggestion for FAQ: clarifying how to upgrade org Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 07:29:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAJE8-0005Iq-CY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:29:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAJE6-0001PL-Bz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:29:28 -0400 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:57139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAJE6-0001Ov-7b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:29:26 -0400 Received: from cpec03f0ed08c7f-cm001ac318e826.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.115.5.73]:43133 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TAJE0-0003Jm-GY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:29:20 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs org-mode mailing list i'm reading the FAQ, section about upgrading org, and it's not clear what one would do in the following situation. i'm running ubuntu 12.04 and in emacs running "M-x org-version" i get, "version 6.33x". however, ubuntu has a separate org-mode package and, after installing that package via "apt-get install" and restarting emacs, i get "version 7.8.02". that seems to work fine. if that's an acceptable way to upgrade org, that should probably be mentioned in the FAQ -- that you might just be able to do a standard, distro-specific install of whatever represents the org-mode package and emacs will pick it up automatically. just an observation. rday p.s. also curious about the advice here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mixed-install in both cases above, when i asked for "org-version", i didn't get any "release" info in parentheses. all i saw was: "Org-mode version x.y.z" which might confuse a reader expecting to see release information. again, just another observation.