2014-03-08 17:22 GMT+01:00 Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org>: > I probably screwed up the install. How do you make a completely >> parallel installation of Lyx 2.1 that won't touch the existing 2.0 >> version either in the local dirs (the ~/.lyx folder) and in the global >> tree (all the stuff installed under /usr)? >> > > If you're just testing, you don't need to install 2.1 at all. You can just > run it from where you compile it. As for the userdir, just run it as: > /path/to/2.1/src/lyx -userdir /home/you/lyx21/ > or whatever. >
And if you want to install, compile --with-version-suffix=-2.1 This will install LyX as a lyx-2.1 binary, use a different installation path /usr/local/lyx-2.1 for instance, and a different user directory (~/lyx-2.1 in this case). Jürgen > > Richard > >
