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