I'm running ubuntu 18.04 and running multiple versions of darktable. I have 2.4.4 installed from Pascal's PPA. I've also downloaded and compiled the current git and installed it at /opt/darktable25. Then I've got the current release candidate installed at /opt/darktable26. I created a bin directory in my home directory and made one line scripts to start the git and release candidates with their own config directories, i.e.:
~/bin/darktable25 /opt/darktable25/bin/darktable --configdir $HOME/.config/darktable25 ~/bin/darktable26 /opt/darktable26/bin/darktable --configdir $HOME/.config/darktable26 and a clean version of the release candidate ~/bin/darktable26c /opt/darktable26/bin/darktable --configdir $HOME/.config/darktable26clean I keep my 2.4.4 images in ~/Pictures/Darktable, 2.5 in ~/Pictures/Darktable25, release candidate in ~/Pictures/Darktable26 Bill On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:41 PM David Vincent-Jones <david...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suspect that running multiple versions may well provide multiple > headaches. > > darktable is complex enough in a single version. KISS .. is best advice. > On 2018-12-10 1:00 p.m., August Schwerdfeger wrote: > > 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 > aug...@schwerdfeger.name > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM Bruce Williams <stu...@audio2u.com> 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 <darkta...@intervalsignals.org> >> Date: Tue., 11 Dec. 2018, 07:41 >> Subject: [darktable-user] darktable stable and unstable on the same >> machine - profile question >> To: darktable-user <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org> >> >> >> 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 >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
