From: afn03257 AT freenet3 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Upgrading DJGPP installations
Date: 27 Jan 1997 04:01:55 GMT
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Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org> wrote:
>Mike A. Harris wrote:
>>
>> I'm running DJ201, and RHIDE1.0 however I just dl'd 1.1.  I've just
>> upgraded in the past by unzipping the new archive (not just rhide,
but
>> all kinds of stuff) over top of the old stuff.  I've come across some
>> problems in doing this however and am now wondering how one joes
about
>> un-installing a djgpp package.  ie:
>>
>> C:\>PKUNZIP -d RHIDE11b.zip djgpp\
>>
>> How is it done?
>It is generally bad practice to install over an old version.
>You install in a new directory and take the old one off the path &

Why? its never given me any trouble, you might have to delete the 
proj files, but that is it. just use

 PKUNZIP -d -o so that all files are overwritten.