Python installation broken after update

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Python installation broken after update #40

Closed iphelix closed 6 years ago

iphelix commented 6 years ago

Python installer forces installation to C:\PythonXX and does not detect an existing path. As a result, an existing installation of Python installed in C:\Program Files\PythonXX gets broken after an update.

A temporary fix is to reinstall python manually in the expected C:\Program Files\PythonXX path and rerun pip installer if necessary with

python -ensurepip

iphelix commented 6 years ago

I have forked python2 installer to install itself into the Program Files directory. If you have ran into this issue after an update where installed packages stopped working (e.g. FLOSS, Fakenet-NG) please execute the following commands as Administrator:

cuninst -f python2 cinst python2