I've wasted an entire day trying to upgrade to Org 8 under OS X :(
I'm using a modified version of Emacs, with ESS pre-installed. I've also
downloaded the latest 24.3.1 Emacs for OS X and tried with that.
In both cases, I am able to install Org 8 (20140730 now) via ELPA. It
installs to a local
Try putting (package-initialize) as the first line of your .emacs,
that should do the trick.
Best,
Jorge.
Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo jorge.a.alfaro at gmail.com writes:
Try putting (package-initialize) as the first line of your .emacs,
that should do the trick.
This solved it. Thanks :)
I successfully upgraded Org mode to version 8 by following these[1]
instructions. I am now trying to repeat this on a Mac OS X system. After
M-x list-packages, Emacs connects to elpa.gnu.org and then to orgmode.org,
but reports that it is unable to connect to orgmode.org, and presents a list
of
This was a network/proxy issue. Emacs was also unable to contact GNU, but
displayed a default/cached (?) list of packages.
