> The first thing I tried is simply using choosenim as recommended on the > announcement page. That resulted in the following error message:
How did you use it? Was it from a previous installation? What did you run exactly? Please outline explicitly, otherwise I have to guess which is not ideal. > I thought that maybe I could update choosenim using nimble by doing: Nope, you update choosenim via `choosenim update self`, which <https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/16/version-140-released.html> outlines. > I downloaded it, but that was quite hard to do because both my browser and my > antivirus did not trust it. I finally managed to download it and then ran it > but it did not appear to work either. This might have been my fault because > the antivirus kept throwing error messages whenever I used > choosenim-0.7.2_windows_amd64.exe. Yeah, antiviruses suck. They see an executable with another executable embedded in it and think it's a virus. Annoying and dumb of them to do that, the only thing I can think of to do here is to encrypt the exe, actually that might be worthwhile (I'll create an issue). But you've downloaded the wrong file, you should have downloaded the .zip. This is outlined in <https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#windows>, did you just go straight to the releases page without seeing these instructions? > In the end I solved the problem by downloading the nim 1.4 release zip file, > extracting it into a nim-1.4.0 folder the choosenime folder of my profile > (C:Users<my_user_name>.choosenimtoolchainsnim-1.4.0) and then using the > choosenim-0.7.2_windows_amd64.exe file that I had downloaded to select nim > 1.4.0: You shouldn't need to do this. Choosenim is supposed to download for you. * * * All in all, you should have followed <https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#windows>. If you have ideas on how to make these instructions clearer, happy to hear them, because your experience was certainly not what we aim for. If following those instructions fails then that's a bug that we should resolve. But I think if you followed those instructions you would have been fine, let me know if those still cause you problems.