Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep 29 08:41, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
> >>   You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 perform
> >> a parallel installation for you.  The very first time you ever run it you must
> >> select a new installation dir, and a new local package cache dir, and
> >> successfully make it to the end of the installation run *without ever pressing
> >> back or canceling out and restarting*.
> > 
> > That's a bit too much.  The really important part you must get right in
> > the first try is to enter the correct Root Directory in the "Choose
> > Installation Directory" dialog.  Due to the way Setup works, if you
> > forgot to set the directory and press "Next" it's too late.  In that
> > case, cancel Setup and restart it.  Usually that should do it, though
> > I didn't try that for quite a long time...
> 
>   Ah, I had a horribly frustrating time trying to get it to not upgrade one of
> my installations once after I had accidentally gone as far as the chooser
> page, and got a bit cargo-culty when setup seemed to still know about my 1.5
> installation despite having done everything I could think of to hide it, so my
> advice erred on the side of ludicrously over-cautious.

That's proably better anyway.  I just didn't want to put off people from
trying.


Corinna

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