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30.0.50; [ELPA] Inaccurate installation instructions for built-in packages

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 63800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63800: [elpa] elpa-admin 1d766451f8: Suggest `package-install' to install packages (bug#63800)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:22:32 +0000

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> package-upgrade is not available in any of the released Emacs versions.
>> Do note that some people still use ELPA to install packages for Emacs
>> 26.
>
> But for those, the instructions have been wrong for years anyway, so I'm
> not too worried :-)

Last time I checked, M-x package-install worked for me in Emacs 26 for
non-core packages. Same for M-x package-list, except that in Emacs 26
one may also need to run M-x package-refresh-contents.

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