emacs: package-name is an available obsolete package

Question

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?

Putman

I have the same issue. Did you figure it out? – Jacindajacinta

Since I started to use GNU Emacs 26.3, I do not face this issue. – Putman

weird. That's actually the version I have installed now – Jacindajacinta

When you removed the previous version, are you sure you did not forget to delete its related settings, for example in .emacs file ? – Putman

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' – Jacindajacinta

Answer 1

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.

Maddi