[Kmymoney-devel] build question - how to have two two versions at the same time

[Alvaro Soliverez]

You can't play this trick if you want to run 2 similar versions
together (eg. 3.98.1 and SVN)
In that case, you have to uninstall and install the one you want to use.


On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Brendan Coupe <brendan at coupeware.com> wrote:
> I'm running KMM 1.0.5 from the Fedora repositories (because I can't get the
> CVS version to compile in Fedora 13) and the SVN version (3.98.x) on the
> same computer. This also works with the CVS version and the SVN version (I
> did this in Fedora 12).
> The trick is to install KMM 1 first, then install KMM 3.98.
> To run KMM 1: /usr/bin/kmymoney2
> To run KMM 3.98: /usr/bin/kmymoney
> I think KMM 1 creates a sym link /usr/bin/kmymoney that points
> at /usr/bin/kmymoney2 which gets replaced with a binary when you install KKM
> 3.98.
> ----
> Brendan
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would really love to be able to have two different versions of KMM
>> "installed" at the same time.  I use the quotes because I what I really
>> want is to have the distro provided version actually installed, but be
>> able to compile and run one or more other versions - such as the latest
>> svn.  I know you can actually run kmymoney/kmymoney from within the
>> build directory, but without doing the "make install" many of the
>> necessary files won't be found, so you either don't have them or you
>> get the ones from the real installed version.
>>
>> I assume this isn't really a KMM problem specifically, but a more
>> general KDE issue.  Does anybody know if this has been addressed or if
>> there are any suggested approaches?  I know I could set up virtual
>> machines, but it seems like a lot of overhead.  I wonder if I could set
>> it up with a chroot environment, but there is enough I'm not sure about
>> that I haven't bothered trying yet.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas, including where in the KDE forums or mailing
>> lists would be a better place to discuss this.
>>
>> Jack
>>
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