ILife Apps - iPhoto missing after Hard drive wipe.

I have a MacBook Pro Spring 2010. When I bought it, I had all of the iLife apps preinstalled. When OS X Mavericks came out, I upgraded. I ran out of space, so I wiped the hard drive after backing up my important files to a hardrive. To get my iLife apps back, I used the CD, i got them all back except iPhoto. How do I get iPhoto back?

Run the software update to upgrade to the latest compatible version for Mavericks.
Apple Menu()>Software Update>iPhoto
It keeps old and new versions in your App folder. So drag the new icon down to the Dock if need be.
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9), i7 500GB 16GB RAM iPhone5 iOS7.0.4

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