I broke the IDE install process.

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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OK...so I bought a 4D systems 4duino. I wanted to get it working with the hello world program.

Ran into the well known linker plugin problem. While trying to solve it I made the really bad decision to delete the Arduino IDE directory.

Now I can't get any version of Arduino IDE to install. They all tell be that I already have 1.8 installed when I can assure it I do not.

How do I clean out whatever is blocking me so I can start over.

Yes, I know it was stupid and incompetent. So will you help me?

Michael Harpe

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Try these instructions...

CLEAN UP BEFORE INSTALLING ANOTHER COPY OF THE IDE OR ARDUINO CREATE.pdf (345 KB)

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The first step did it. Thank you. I've made a note of that.

The problem with the linker plugin is gone as well.

Thank you for the help.

Michael