On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Andreas Busch wrote:
> Hi -- and congratulations to the development team for finishing LyX 1.4!
>
> I am eager to try it out and have done so on one machine, but on my
> production machine I am hesitant to take risks. So my question is: is
> it possible to install LyX 1.4 besides an older version (I am
> currently using 1.3.6)?
>
> The installer seems to "move" the old user's directory. But I assume
> that if I copy that before and then reinstate it, my old LyX version
> should run as before?
First of all you need to install the different versions of LyX in
different directories. Then you can for instance give the full path to the
LyX binary in order to which LyX you use. Finally, in order to make sure
that LyX doesn't do anything bad to your local configuration directory
(typically ~/.lyx), you can start the new version of lyx with these
arguments:
/usr/local/lyx-1.4/bin/lyx -userdir ~/.lyx-1.4
LyX will then use the directory ~/.lyx-1.4 for your local configuration.
Alternatively, you can of course simply do this:
mv ~/.lyx ~/.lyx-1.3
and then start your old version of lyx with
lyx -userdir ~/.lyx-1.3
cheers
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
