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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:11:22 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [1.7.5] python2.5 bad installation?
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Edward,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:55:18AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:59:30AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
> >>I just updated my cygwin installation and it looks like my old
> >>python2.5 installation has been corrupted?
> >
> >When you updated your Cygwin installation, you updated Python to
> >python-2.6.5-2:
> 
> So is the python2.5 distribution effectively removed from cygwin?

No, it is just marked as the previous instead of the current version.

> I didn't do anything special when I ran setup.exe, it just
> automatically picks up the latest packages and I just hit the install
> button.

This is how Cygwin's setup.exe works.

> Now that I've unintentionally updated, what should I do to fix python
> 2.5? Uninstall the python 2.6 package?

Rerun setup.exe and select python-2.5.5-1.

Jason

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