Overwriting built-in packages

Overwriting built-in packages

[Nathan Van Ymeren]

Hello all,

I've been searching and reading documentation for about 2 hours now, and
haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.

I'm running Debian, which ships GNU Emacs with org-mode 8.2.10 and I would
like to overwrite this builtin package with a newer version (from melpa or
whichever repository).  What is the simplest, most correct way to do this?

Please help!

Thanks,

Nathan

Re: Overwriting built-in packages

[John Mastro]

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Nathan Van Ymeren <nathan.vany@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been searching and reading documentation for about 2 hours now, and
> haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.
> 
> I'm running Debian, which ships GNU Emacs with org-mode 8.2.10 and I would
> like to overwrite this builtin package with a newer version (from melpa or
> whichever repository).  What is the simplest, most correct way to do this?

In general, you should be able to simply install org from MELPA and restart Emacs. 

It won't overwrite the built-in one, but it will shadow/supersede it. 

Have you already tried that?

        John

Re: Overwriting built-in packages

[Charles Millar]

Hi Nathan,

On 03/21/2017 08:41 PM, Nathan Van Ymeren wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been searching and reading documentation for about 2 hours now, and
> haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm running Debian, which ships GNU Emacs with org-mode 8.2.10 and I would
> like to overwrite this builtin package with a newer version (from melpa or
> whichever repository).  What is the simplest, most correct way to do this?
>
> Please help!
>
>

See http://orgmode.org/ as afa as downloading and installation 
instructions. As far as I know, you do not overwrite the builtin package 
rather you set the load path to the newer version in your init.el file 
so as to a void a mixed installation.

Charlie Millar

Re: Overwriting built-in packages

[Charles Millar]

I forgot to suggest that, if you have not already, check out  the 
following which are great sources of info in addition to the manual.

mailing list at emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

and also see http://orgmode.org/worg/

On 03/21/2017 08:41 PM, Nathan Van Ymeren wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been searching and reading documentation for about 2 hours now, and
> haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm running Debian, which ships GNU Emacs with org-mode 8.2.10 and I would
> like to overwrite this builtin package with a newer version (from melpa or
> whichever repository).  What is the simplest, most correct way to do this?
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathan
>