I do not THINK that you need to install Skinvue 8 before installing elite. The check to see if you are entitled to an update is done at Cornucopia. However there is one thing that you must be careful about. Cornucopia says that you must install python 2,8 before installing elite, I understand from another site (forgotten where) that it is no longer necessary and that it will mess up your python library.

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