Den 18. april 2016 15:14, skrev Wolfgang Engelmann:
I have installed the new Lyx 2.2(rc1) thanks to the help of several people of this list. I wanted to keep the 2.1 version. I have therefore started the new version by using src/lyx on the command line (produced by ./configure and make - but omitted the make install so far).
However, starting the old lyx 2.1 with
 lyx &
gives me
[1] 3613
we@wolfgang-Mr-Whisper-Ultra-SSD-II:/mnt/sdb/we$ Warning: Die Konfigurationsdatei konnte nicht gelesen werden
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Fehler beim Lesen der Konfigurationsdatei preferences.
Bitte prüfen Sie Ihre Installation.

Does the new lyx use some of the resources and what could I do?
Can I change the name of the new Lyx to e.g. Lyx2-2 at this stage (perhaps while doing make install) and get the resources back again?
The "new" lyx has updated stuff in your .lyx/ directory - the "old" lyx does not understand and fails.

You can get the old lyx working by removing any new files from .lyx/ that the new lyx has created there, or removing the entire .lyx directory. (That will also remove your preferences, so you may have to re-set
anything in tools->preferences as well as any default document->settings.

To avoid this sort of thing, when you compile a test version of LyX:
./configure --with-version-suffix (as well as any other parameters you may want) When you "make install", you will then get lyx-2.2dev which will store its settings in .lyx-2.2dev/ and there will be no conflict with your older lyx 2.1

Helge Hafting

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