Unable to upgrade to 1.8.5
gitdine opened this issue · comments
When I try to upgrade to 1.8.5 from 1.8.4 using the MSI file, I get an error message saying "Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue"
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For now the way to “upgrade" yt-dlg
using the installer (MSI) is uninstall the old version and install the new. One reason is we include the specific version of Python (3.10) work with the UI (wxPython)