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 -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
