I have often run several different versions of Darktable (manually-compiled) on my machine.
Due to database incompatibilities between the major versions of Darktable, you either have to create a second user account as Bruce suggests, or use the '--configdir' command-line option to specify a different configuration directory/database for each version. I imagine that there would be similar compatibility issues involved if you imported image files into more than one such database and the sidecar files were overwritten, but I have never done this, so I cannot say for sure. -- August Schwerdfeger [email protected] On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM Bruce Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Others may have a more suitable or elegant answer, but I've been > considering a similar proposition.... Which is to simply create a second > user account on the Linux machine and run the unstable/development version > of darktable under that account. > Given that all the processing is stored in sidecar files, both user > accounts (and therefore, both the stable and unstable releases) would be > able to read the same folders and see the same sidecar files. > I guess there might be issues when the stable release tried to look at > sidecar files which were created in the unstable version. > Thoughts? > Cheers, > Bruce Williams. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Bernhard <[email protected]> > Date: Tue., 11 Dec. 2018, 07:41 > Subject: [darktable-user] darktable stable and unstable on the same > machine - profile question > To: darktable-user <[email protected]> > > > Hi, > > currently I am considering to move away from Linuxmint (too many issues > with my machine) and while looking through the Manjaro/Arch Repos I > found darktable-git as well as darktable 2.4.x. > > This raised the following question: > Is there a possibility to have both versions installed on the same > machine to run them independently from each other? > Do they use the same profile - and more important: is there a way to let > them operate on their specific profile? > > That would enable me (and possibly others) to do my work with darktable > stable version and also run the development version from time to time - > especially at this time of the year with the release candidates around - > and help report bugs etc. > > -- > > regards > Bernhard > > https://www.bilddateien.de > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
