On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 01:51:43PM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 21.11.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > > > I would like to say that "you may install 2.2.0alpha1 without affecting > > your current installation of LyX" and that "you may use the two versions > > simulaneously without conflict". This is true on e.g. Ubuntu. Can > > someone confirm this is true for Mac and Windows? > > It's true in the sense, that LyX 2.2.x is using a separate user directory. > With LyX 2.1.x it's $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.1 and it's > $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.2 with LyX 2.2.x. Besides this one > may have as many copies of LyX as one wants to. The disk image suggests > moving the LyX application to the Applications directory. In case the user > replaced the current one that way the installation affects (removes) the > current LyX 2.1.x application. > > For Mac OS X the better phrase would be something like this: > "You may install LyX 2.2.0alpha1 for test purpose e.g. at your desktop > and run it without changing the user settings of your current installation. > You may even start it from the opened disk image without installing it. > That way you may use the two versions simulaneously without conflict."
Thanks Stephan. Scott
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