I've always had J installed under Program Files in Windows. As long as you make sure that you start J as administrator when you go to upgrade from JAL I haven't had any problems (well except for addons that expect to be able to write to their addon folder which is bad form IMO).
I think the key for the beta is to try out as many different scenarios as possible to find out what works & what doesn't. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember it will invite troubles if installing J under program > files on win-vista. Not sure how well it will be under win7 or > win8. May be you can try turning off UAC or starting > jconsole using run as adminitrator. > > For linux, I isntall J under my home directory. You may try > create a symlink if you want to allow other users to use j > installed under your home. > > Вт, 19 мар 2013, Ric Tikkanz писал(а): >> I agree. Last time I upgraded my jqt binaries I ended up manually >> installing them because I couldn't seem to get them to overwrite the >> existing ones. I have my Windows j8 install in c:\Program >> Files\j64-801, and my Linux one in /opt/j64-801. Both need admin >> permissions to write to, which may complicate things. >> >> I can't be absolutely certain I didn't make a stupid error though so >> I'll test it out with more care tonight (I see that there are new >> binaries available!) >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> ... >> > >> > Looking at the code in install and getqtbin, it may be that in some >> >> instances, where old binaries already exist, they aren't being >> >> replaced by the new versions. You could try deleting/renaming/moving >> >> ~bin/jqt.exe and ~bin/jqt.dll before you run ( install 'qtide' ). >> >> >> > >> > Do you have an example of this? It should not be necessary to delete the >> > old jqt binaries first. >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
