"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paul Schwartz wrote: > >> >> Sorry to disturb again and coming back so far but when I installed 1.3.7, >> I used the "uninstaller" program supplied with the former version to >> uninstall it. >> Now if I want to uninstall 1.3.7, I still have a uninstall program inside >> 1.3.7. >> However in 1.4.1, I just have an icon and nothing else and I am sure that >> it is far better to uninstall 1.4.1 ahead of installing 1.4.2 or 1.4.3. > > Personally, I have 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 installed in parallel, with no > major problems. (They all share configuration info, so preference changes > in one apply to all, but to date I have not found any conflicts there.) > > Interestingly, I have uninstallers for 1.4.1 and 1.4.3, but not for 1.4.2. > >> My question is how to unistall it properly (the one supplied with the >> complete version installer for windows without compiling). May I use the >> unistaller supplied with 1.3.7 or have you an better suggestion. > > The 1.3.7 uninstaller is unlikely to know what to do to uninstall 1.4.1. > > Have you checked Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs to make sure that > 1.4.1 is not listed there? If it is, you should be able to uninstall it > from there. > > I just crawled my registry and didn't find anything particularly funky > associated with the directory in which I have 1.4.1 installed. So if I > wanted to delete 1.4.1 and lacked the installer, here's what I would do: > install 1.4.3 first (in a different directory) and make sure it works (!); > note down the path to 1.4.1 and then delete its root directory and all > subdirectories; then either (a) quit while I'm ahead and live with a > little harmless clutter in the registry or (b) run a registry cleaner > program that hopefully would delete any keys referring to the now > nonexistent 1.4.1 directory or (c) run regedit, search for all references > to the deleted directory and manually delete them. > > HTH, > Paul > > Thanks for the detailed comments. Regarding Add/Remove Programs, you are right, it can be done from there, however when there is an uninstaller in a program, I do prefer to use it. To go a bit further (pse don't sigh): In fact there is so many "aside" programs with LyX that I am always afraid to miss one and for that reason, till today, each time I have fully update (reinstalling everything). But, if I follow you properly, when you have got one installation, let us say 1.4.1, you just need to install 1.4.3 and keep former Miktex, ImageMagick, Ghostscript, Aspell ( I am not sure ) and GSView or to update them directly. As such I should have just to download LyX 1.4.3. Am I correct ?
Thanks Paul
