Re: Emacs doesn't see the most recent version of Company Mode hosted on Elpa

[egarrulo]

On 18/05/17 21:14, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:21 AM <egarrulo@gmail.com
> <mailto:egarrulo@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     (defvar package-enable-at-startup nil)
>     (require 'package)
>     (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa-stable" .
>     "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/";))
>     (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/";) t)
>     (setq package-user-dir (expand-file-name "~/elpa/"))
>     (package-initialize)
>
>
> You need to setq the package-user-dir *before* calling (require
> 'package).  Otherwise emacs will first create the elpa/ dir at the
> default location at the time of requiring.
>
> In addition, simply delete the archives/ dir inside package-user-dir;
> emacs will just rebuild that from scratch without complaining.
>
> Then finally restart emacs and then see if the issue gets resolved.

Unfortunately your solution does not work, but thanks for your help.

I think that I will look for ways to rebuild the package directory from 
scratch.