Whenever I install a MELPA package, I get this message:
package-name is an available obsolete package
Here is a screenshot of what I mean (first line):
I tried this solution but it did not help.
How to fix it?
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Billal Begueradj
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I have the same issue. Did you figure it out? – Daniel Apr 16 '20 at 09:25
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Since I started to use GNU Emacs 26.3, I do not face this issue. – Billal Begueradj Apr 16 '20 at 09:33
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weird. That's actually the version I have installed now – Daniel Apr 16 '20 at 09:34
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When you removed the previous version, are you sure you did not forget to delete its related settings, for example in **.emacs** file ? – Billal Begueradj Apr 16 '20 at 09:38
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deleted everything. But it's not a huge problem. I can install packages, it's just that as soon as they're installed, the heading above changes to 'available obsolete from melpa' – Daniel Apr 16 '20 at 10:04
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That message confused me too. It turns out it's just a poor choice of words for saying that there's a new version available.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-02/msg00082.html
Once you update the list of packages with M-x package-refresh-contents, then you can type U x and it will upgrade all installed packages that have a more recent version available.
Once that is done, the message you see when you open the description of an updated package will be:
Package x is installed.
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