Thanks, Luis! I noticed update-all-dists too late, not sure how I missed it. I bravely attempted (ql:update :cffi) but of course no luck, I guess because you are saying:

A
dist is, among other things, a list of URLs pointing to project
snapshots that are known to work well with each other.

But then the name "update-all-dists" seems off (checking my understanding). Does it not update-all-*projects* in the one current dist? Trying to answer my own question on The Google, I found this gem of a thread:

http://blog.quicklisp.org/2011/08/going-back-in-dist-time.html

...and the extensive :ql-dist package.

I guess I should not have skipped the instruction to contact Xach if I had any questions. :)

Thanks again, hk

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Luís Oliveira <luismbo@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Ken Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I am curious, I will first try to see why uninstall did not work.

When you first install Quicklisp, it will download the latest dist. A
dist is, among other things, a list of URLs pointing to project
snapshots that are known to work well with each other. (This is one of
the key features of Quicklisp!) Uninstalling a project then
reinstalling it doesn't achieve much since Quicklisp will again grab
the very same project version, as determined by the dist.

To update to the latest dist, you can use ql:update-all-dists. They're
released monthly.

Cheers,

--
Luís Oliveira
http://kerno.org/~luis/

Kenneth Tilton

http://tiltontec.com/