Vinay Ramnath wrote:
Hi,
until now, I've only installed the LyX rpm. I want to upgrade to 1.2.3, of which there only the source code is available on the LyX site. That's ok, I've compiled things before, but do I have to remove my current installation of LyX, using "rpm -e lyx", or can I just compile and install the new version without removing the old one?
Well, if I do have to remove my previous installation, does that also remove my configuration files in /home/vinay/.lyx/ so that I would have to back them up?
Thank you,
Vinay
Hello Vinay,
if you want to run more than one version of lyx in parallel do a ./configure --program-suffix=-1.2.3 --with-version-suffix=-1.2.3 Assuming the configure is sucessful, and make && make install-strip work, you will find lyx-1.2.3, relyx-1.2.3 and noweb2lyx-1.2.3 in /usr/local/bin. Now you can either move those files somewhere in you $PATH or extend $PATH to include /usr/local/bin. If you type "lyx " you start the old lyx 1.2.1, "lyx-1.2.3" will give you lyx-1.2.3. The first time you start lyx-1.2.3 an new directoy .lyx-1.2.3 will be created where your configuration will be stored. That means that you can leave your old .lyx untouched, and lyx-1.2.3 will not mess with our old confuguration. Question? Michael -- Michael Abshoff - MRB - Universit�t Dortmund - Telefon 755-3463 (intern) Where do you want to RTFM today?
