Upgrade Thonny (Windows)

Peter Vincent

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Jul 26, 2018, 6:39:12 AM7/26/18

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How do I upgrade Thonny itself? I can keep the other packages up to date easily, but I can't find any way of doing the same for Thonny. Do I have to download and reinstall or this there a better way? I can search for Thonny in both manage packages and add-ins, but neither of these recognise that it is already installed.

Aivar Annamaa

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Jul 26, 2018, 8:10:05 AM7/26/18

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At the moment you really need to reinstall Thonny.

I'm considering allowing to `pip install --upgrade --user thonny` from inside Thonny. This way thonny package under user site packages would shadow older package in main site packages. But I'm still unsure about this, it feels a bit hackish ...

Aivar

Peter Vincent

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Jul 26, 2018, 8:22:37 AM7/26/18

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Thank you for such a clear answer.

David Heintz

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Aug 8, 2020, 3:18:00 PM8/8/20

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Should old version be manually uninstalled before installing new version?

Aivar Annamaa

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Aug 9, 2020, 2:08:01 AM8/9/20

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No, new version on Thonny can be installed on top of the old one (the old one automatically gets removed first).

Aivar

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