> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com>: > >> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH >> LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac >> OS 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue. >> Is this possible? > > ... > > If all you want to do is install both versions of LyX, then, assuming you > currently have LyX 2.3.8 installed, just open the Applications folder on your > machine and rename LyX.app to “LyX 2.3.8.app” and then install LyX 2.4. I > think the only issue is that LyX 2.3.8 will look in ~/Library/Application > Support/LyX-2.3 for its support files (personal bind files, personal > spellcheck files, etc) and LyX 2.4 will look in ~/Library/Application > Support/LyX-2.4 so those could get out of sync. (You could probably create > symlinks in your LyX-2.3 folder to keep things in sync but you can kick that > can down the road for now.)
I have used a setup like that for over a year with no problem. No Symlinks or anything, just calling one app LyX, and the other LyX-23 (or whatever). /Anders
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