Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-25 Thread Ángel
On 2021-04-23 at 17:26 +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > Is there any method to allow v4 and v5 to be both installed together? Both packages have the same name, so the package manager treats them as the same. Rename the package name of the old version (e.g. to master- pdf-editor-4) and you should be fin

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Morgan Read
On 23/04/2021 6:20 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I suggest you look inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the > package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow > installing different versions of a given package at the same time. > So you'll need to edit those `.deb` to chan

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You probably want to look inside the control archives rather than the > data archives: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29 > > If both control archive files are using a package name of > "master-pdf-editor", you can try Stefan's suggestion of renaming one > and seeing if they'

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:48:13 +0100 Morgan Read wrote: > On 23/04/2021 6:20 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I suggest you look inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the > > package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow > > installing different versions of a given package

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:07:02 +0100 Morgan Read wrote: > On 23/04/2021 5:40 pm, Celejar wrote: > > I'll defer to those with a better understanding of the debian packaging > > system internals, and it may depend on the details of the package, but > > I'm pretty sure that there's no general way to d

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> $ sudo apt install ./master-pdf-editor-4.3.89_qt5.x86_64.deb > ./master-pdf-editor-5.7.08-qt5_included.x86_64.deb > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'master-pdf-editor' instead of > './master-pdf-editor-4.3.89_qt5.x86_6

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:22:48 +0100 Morgan Read wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian. > > When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that > I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a > heada