On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Joachim Osnabryg <o...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > But: > this result, the _overwriting_ of the former LyX 1.6 had not been intended > by me. To keep the actual LyX 1.6.5 installation, what should I had typed > within the $ ./configure command? > > $ ./configure --prefix=/Applications/LyX-svn.app --with-… > or > $ ./configure --prefix=/<some other path than that to Applications>/LyX.app > --with-… > > ?? > Wouldn't be bad, if this would be made somewhat clear in INSTALL.MacOSX!
You can do either approach -- it depends on what you want. I prefer to distinguish the two versions of LyX by their file name, so I do the former. I'm not sure what you think is unclear in INSTALL.MacOSX. Do you have proposed changes? > And, if I want to recover the mistake I made, what to do? > > I guess the easyest way would be, to do the procedure of compiling the LyX > Version 2.0.0svn again but with a corrected $ ./configure command (which > one?) and then install LyX 1.6.5 again, right? Other recommendations? Yes -- that's right. BH
