Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-03 Thread James Sutherland
On Sep 3, 2008, at 3:11 AM, "Erez Yerushalmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks to all your responses. Sorry I didn't mention this, I am using Windows XP. It seems to me that I should stick to the 1.5.5 and not move up until we get the final OK to do so. I don't want to mess things up.

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Thanks to all your responses. Sorry I didn't mention this, I am using Windows XP. It seems to me that I should stick to the 1.5.5 and not move up until we get the final OK to do so. I don't want to mess things up. I was surprised from James' mail. How is it possible to have a 1.6 and a future 1.

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Konrad Hofbauer wrote: P.S. On Windows it is another story again (which I cannot tell). At least with Uwe's installer (and I suspect this is also true for Joost's), it's a nonissue on Windows. By default, LyX will put the user directory for 1.5.x in \Application Data\lyx15, and will put th

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Richard Heck wrote: Note that doing this means using separate user directories, since the preferences file and the like have different formats. So launch 1.6 using a command like: /usr/local/bin/lyx -userdir ~/.lyx16/ and put that into a trivial shellscript so you don't get confused. That's f

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread James Sutherland
On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Richard Heck wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.5.5 and would like to upgrade to 1.6. What is the best way to do this? Should I *un*install 1.5.5 and then install 1.6, or just upload the

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread Richard Heck
James Sutherland wrote: On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.5.5 and would like to upgrade to 1.6. What is the best way to do this? Should I *un*install 1.5.5 and then install 1.6, or just upload the new, install it, and it will erase the old? Or, fina

Re: What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread James Sutherland
On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.5.5 and would like to upgrade to 1.6. What is the best way to do this? Should I *un*install 1.5.5 and then install 1.6, or just upload the new, install it, and it will erase the old? Or, finally, should I wait a b

What is the best way to upgrade to LyX 1.6?

2008-09-02 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi all, I am using LyX 1.5.5 and would like to upgrade to 1.6. What is the best way to do this? Should I *un*install 1.5.5 and then install 1.6, or just upload the new, install it, and it will erase the old? Or, finally, should I wait a bit longer for another 1.6 version to come, which is better