Re: How to safely update from ver. 8.2.10 to 8.3.x

["Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>]

> In the last command I forgot to drop the -Q.  But I guess it works either way.

I would not trust the result from failing to drop the -Q since the -Q is what prevents your init file from loading, which we are explicitly trying to avoid for the sake of compiling org in a fresh environment.

~Malcolm

 > 
 > On 22 August 2016 at 12:25, Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > On 15 August 2016 at 14:29, Cook, Malcolm <MEC@stowers.org> wrote:
 > >>           emacs -Q -batch -eval "(progn (require 'package) (add-to-list
 > 'package-archives '(\"org\" . \"http://orgmode.org/elpa/\"))  (package-
 > initialize) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'org-plus-contrib))"
 > > Here I plan to drop the "-Q" (because --batch already implies -q,
 > > which I think is enough).  So my command would be
 > >     emacs --batch --eval "(progn (require 'package) (add-to-list
 > > 'package-archives '(\"org\" . \"http://orgmode.org/elpa/\"))
 > > (package-initialize) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install
 > > 'org-plus-contrib))"
 > >
 > >> Note: I use org-plus-contrib from melpa instead of org.  If you want just
 > org, you could simply:
 > >>
 > >>           emacs -Q -batch -eval "(progn (require 'package) (package-initialize)
 > (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'org-plus-contrib))"
 > >
 > > Would not it be
 > >     emacs -Q --batch --eval "(progn (require 'package)
 > > (package-initialize) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install
 > > 'org))"
 > > ?
 > >
 > >
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 > 
 > 
 > --
 > - I am Brazilian.  I apologize for possibly bad English and I welcome
 > corrections.
 > - Please adopt free formats like PDF, ODF, LaTeX, Vorbis, Opus, WebM and
 > 7z.
 > - Free software for Android: https://f-droid.org/