Many many thanks for the clear guidance rendered in this post.
Trust all versions will work independently - similar to winXP wherein each
version can be installed in
different/separate folder.
With Regards,
-sriranga(77yrsold)

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2010/1/8 74yrs old <[email protected]>:
> > In my case, at present, I have downloaded tesseract 2.03 in folder
> > "deepayan" of  Home folder"sangeetha" and installed. under
> > /usr/bin/tesseract /usr/SHARE/tesseract  as could be seen
> > from the extract of terminal reproduced below:
> > [sangee...@sangu ~]$ whereis tesseract
> > tesseract: /usr/bin/tesseract /usr/share/tesseract
> > [sangee...@sangu ~]$
> >
> > Whether tesseract 2.04 and tesseract 3.0 should be downloaded in the two
> > separate folders - say 'tess2.04" and 'tess 3.0" of Home "deepyan"  and
> > install by configuring as follows:
> >
> > for tess2.03
> > ./configure -- prefix=/user/share/tesseract  (existing)
> > /usr/bin/tesseract  (existing)
> >
> > for "tess2.04" folder
> > ./configure  -- prefix= /user/ temp/tesseract  ( IS IT CORRECT?)  how to
>
> No, it's not, because you have a space in the path. You are telling
> configure to use '/user' as the prefix, rather than
> '/user/temp/tesseract'. You also have a space between '--' and
> 'prefix'. However:
>
> > prefix for   "/usr /bin/tesseract-2.04/tesseract "  (is it correct?)
> >
>
> ...if you want to install in "/usr/bin/tesseract-2.04/" - again, no
> space in the path - use that with the --prefix option
>
> ./configure  --prefix=/usr/bin/tesseract-2.04/
>
>
> > for "tess3.0" folder
> > ./configure -- prefix=/user/local/tesseract  (is it correct?)  how to
> > prefix for   "/usr /bin/tesseract-3.0/tesseract " (is it correct?)
> >
>
> ./configure  --prefix=/usr/bin/tesseract-3.0/
>
> > With regards,
> > -sriranga(77yrsold)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Eugene Reimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's certainly possible to have multiple working versions installed in
> >> Linux.  Whether or not it's easily done will depend on how the
> "installer"
> >> is written, and I haven't studied it.  However, installing two versions
> by
> >> using the --prefix option on the ./configure commandlines should be easy
> to
> >> do.  By doing one with:
> >>   ./configure --prefix=/usr
> >> and the other with (the default I believe):
> >>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> >>
> >>
> >> 74yrs old wrote, On 2010-01-07 20:55:
> >>
> >>> Thus not more than  one of the versions of tesseract should be able to
> >>> work in Linux. Am I correct?
> >>
> >>
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