David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > >> David Masterson writes: >>> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >>> understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like >>> something doesn't match up -- particularly with the Org package: >>> >>> 1. Most modern Emacs have Org pre-installed. >>> 2. Unfortunately, that Org is not up-to-date (24.3 has 7.9.3f). >>> 3. Therefore, installing the latest Org package seems natural. >> >> The pitfall here is that you _must_ do the first install of the Org >> package from an Emacs that didn't load any part of the built-in Org. > > What does this mean? Does this mean you expect people to build Emacs > from scratch just to ensure they do not have Org built-in?
I believe it means the installation must be done from an Emacs instance that hasn't loaded any Org mode functions yet. You must make sure there are no =Org-mode= functions loaded while the update is done. For that, exit Emacs and then run Emacs without loading your =.emacs= (=Emacs -Q=). Remove the old =Org-mode= #+BEGIN_SRC sh rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-”Tab” #+END_SRC where =Tab= means press =Tab= to see and auto complete the old =Org-mode= directory you want to remove. Finally, update =Org-mode= (=M-x package-install RET org RET=) and restart Emacs as usual. See http://nickhigham.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/emacs-org-mode-version-8/ hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com