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8395 :: Choosenim installs older stable?

• upholstered (orginal) [2021-09-04T02:42:21+02:00] view original

  I just ran choosenim and it installed 1.2.0. However, I saw in some forum comments that 1.4.8 is the stable version. Certainly it seems much newer, but I wonder if it's stable?

  Anyway, I did this in the meantime:

  
  mv ~/Downloads/nim-1.4.8/bin/* ~/.nimble/bin/
  Run

  (.bashrc already has the given PATH modifier to look in .nimble)

  Reported version: "Nim Compiler Version 1.4.8 [Linux: amd64]"

  Was this method OK? Anything I should be doing differently?

  I am running Linux x64. Thank you.

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• PMunch (orginal) [2021-09-04T12:41:35+02:00] view original

  That is strange. Your method of installing Nim will only give you an updated compiler though, not updated standard libraries, which is bad. He you tried choosenim update stable, choosenim update self, or simply just choosenim 1.4.8?

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• upholstered (orginal) [2021-09-04T18:28:14+02:00] view original

  
  choosenim update stable
  Run

  Thank you, this command successfully upgraded Nim to 1.4.8, while using the curl method directly provided 1.2.0.

  I'm not sure why the Github docs don't directly recommend running the command above after the curl install command, as it seems like a good way to get a version one doesn't want. :-) (At least, for beginners to language/ecosystem)

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• dom96 (orginal) [2021-09-05T00:34:24+02:00] view original

  Strange. The only way I can see this happening is if you had an old choosenim install already. In which case the installer script probably should have detected it, can you file an issue? :)

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• upholstered (orginal) [2021-09-05T20:54:48+02:00] view original

  Thanks @dom96, I will file an issue for this if it can be helpful.

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