On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Davor Cengija wrote: > Now I thought it would be easier, in order to have both versions but to > force users use new LyX, to rename /usr/bin/lyx to /usr/bin/lyx-1.1.6p4 and > link /opt/bin/lyx to /usr/bin/lyx. Now when I run just 'lyx' (binary > reached through $PATH) it mysteriously tries to open /usr/share/lyx/... > files, instead of /opt/share/lyx/..., like it doesn't look absolute paths > but relative ones. When called as /opt/bin/lyx everything's fine. > > I just removed the old version and now I can call /usr/bin/lyx or only lyx > and it correctly opens /opt/share/lyx/... files. >
I use the -userdir and -sysdir options to explicitly specify where to look for global and local lyx directories, respectively. You could write a shell script to run the non-default version of lyx. This is what I have on my home PC and lyx 1.1 and 1.2 coexist very happily. Tricky bit was the installation, both from binary rpms. -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia Tel: +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: +61 3 9905 3637
