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Cheers Lex On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 01:42, Mike McCauley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 11/8/20 10:21 PM, Lex Trotman wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 10:45, Mike McCauley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Under Ubuntu Linux, what is the recommended technique to upgrade Geany > as newer versions are released? > > All I've been able to find online is info on how to do an initial > install, and some upgrade suggestions that didn't work. > > Thats because there is no such thing as an "upgrade" of Geany, a new > install replaces the old install (unless specially built to not do > that, which (AFAIK) no distros do). > > > > Understood. > > I'm relatively new to Linux, so I'm not aware of some of these conventions. > Good to know this. > > I've put a ton of time into customizing my install, and I for sure don't > want to screw up and have an "upgrade trick" wipe all that out. > > An upgrade won't touch any customising you did in your local configure > directories, but if you are one of those people who customised the > system files then yes it will overwrite them. In that case you need > to copy the changes to a non-system configuration first and don't > touch system files again. > > > > If I'm interpreting your remarks correctly, I'm OK. > > I did NOT alter any of the build files for the package, I did a plain vanilla > default install. All of what I've done subsequent to that is purely > configuration setup, mainly coloration and keyword info in a new config file > for a Geany-unsupported compiler that I frequently use for developing > embedded system code for PIC processors. > > So, as I understand, what I need to do is simply perform the "new install" > procedure again, and none of my configuration work will be altered. Nothing I > added will be deleted, only the install-created config files will be > overwritten. > > > I am only in interested in installing stable code, not bleeding edge > development versions. > > Distro versions are usually releases so thats as stable as it gets. > That doesn't mean that there are no issues with a release, but by the > time it has percolated through most distro systems it should be fairly > stable so long as its the latest micro point release for the platform > (1.37.0 for Linux, 1.37.1 for Windows as this is written). > > If you want to upgrade bypassing the distro system, you can build > yourself with a different prefix so it doesn't overwrite an existing > version, thats how developers maintain multiple versions. > > Cheers > Lex > > > > Understood. > > All I'm interested in is availing myself of enhancements and bug fixes. I > have no interest in having anything other than the latest stable rev > installed on my machine. > > Thanks a lot for the help! > > Mike > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Mike > > REF: Ubuntu 20.04, Geany 1.36 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
