>>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:01:15 +0300 (EEST)
>>From: Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: 2 versions of LyX at the same time
>>
>>On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to install two versions of LyX at the same time without any
>>
>>Everything is possible, it's just matter of work.
>>
>>You could install two LyXes easily from source into different directories
>>using the --prefix= with two different paths. However, LyX also writes
>>some configuration files into your home directory. This is almost
>>certainly taken from the HOME environment variable, so you could do
>>something like this:
>>
>>cd normal-lyx
>>./configure --prefix=/usr/normal-lyx
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>cd cjk-lyx
>>./configure --prefix=/usr/cjk-lyx
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>cat >/usr/bin/normal-lyx
>>#!/bin/sh
>>HOME=$HOME/normal-lyx
>>exec /usr/normal-lyx/bin/lyx
>>^D
>>
>>cat >/usr/bin/cjk-lyx
>>#!/bin/sh
>>HOME=$HOME/cjk-lyx
>>exec /usr/cjk-lyx/bin/lyx
>>^D
>>
>>chmod +x /usr/bin/normal-lyx /usr/bin/cjk-lyx
>>
>>And then create subdirectories normal-lyx and cjk-lyx into your real home
>>directory. This solution might not work out-of-the-box but it should give
>>you some idea how to do it.
>>
./configure --with-version-suffix=-cjk
./configure --with-version-suffix=-normal
does it in one step, produces lyx-cjk and lyx-normal in the standard bin
and share location, and dotted personal dirs as well.
--
Jean-Pierre
