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After you have read this guide, if you still have questions about ERC, or if you have bugs to report, there are several places you can go.
To upgrade, run M-x list-packages RET. In the
*Packages* (package-menu-mode
) buffer, click the
‘erc’ package link for the desired version. If unsure, or if the
version column is too narrow to tell, try the bottom-most candidate.
In the resulting help-mode
buffer, confirm the version and
click ‘Install’. Make sure to restart Emacs before reconnecting
to IRC, and don’t forget that you can roll back to the previous
version by running M-x package-delete RET.
See Packages in The Emacs Editor, for more information.
Note that a bug affecting Emacs’s packaging machinery may prevent the
above method from working on Emacs versions 29 and below. Users on 29
can try running C-u M-x package-install RET instead.
Users on 28 and below can click on the installed ‘erc’
line item in the *Packages* buffer instead of the newest one,
and then, in the resulting help-mode
buffer, find and activate
the button for the newest version, which should appear in the summary
item ‘Other versions’.
In the rare instance you need an emergency fix or have volunteered to
test an edge feature between ERC releases, you can try adding
‘("devel" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/")’ to
package-archives
prior to performing the steps above. For
this, you’ll want to instead select a snapshot version from the
menu. Please be aware that when going this route, the latest changes
may not yet be available and you run the risk of incurring other bugs
and encountering unstable features.
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