On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > 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).
Ok. This worked. Thanks. Unfortunately Lyx crashes on compiling the file... I will report further once I have a clearer idea why Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
