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?
Any enlightening help is greatly appreciated!
I have 1.3.7 and 1.4.0pre2 running in parallel on a Windows laptop. It
takes a bit more than reinstating the old user directory. If you run
them from the same user directory, every time you change preferences in
1.4.0 and save, it will overwrite the preferences 1.3.7 sees. You need
to set up two separate user directories. Assuming that you leave the
1.3.6 user directory in its original location and set up the 1.4.0 user
directory elsewhere, you start 1.3.6 in the usual way and start 1.4.0
with the command line
lyx -userdir <path to 1.4.0 user directory>
(If using Windows, you can create a shortcut to LyX 1.4.0 and
right-click the shortcut, select Properties, select the Shortcut tab and
edit the Target line to include the -userdir switch and the path to
the correct user directory.)
HTH,
/Paul
