On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:09 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 > >>>>> "WLM" == William L Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > <snip> > WLM> I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the > WLM> 3.0rc1 tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there. > > <snipped recipe> > > WLM> This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I > WLM> test the new one. So far it's looking pretty good. > > Question: if I do this, will I be able to move back to the > stock-1.5-version without problems. In other words: is the stuff like > bookmarks, history etc that is written to disk backward-compatible? Last time I did something like this was with the beta 5 release. In that case I removed the box version and installed globally. Going that direction, the per-user config files seemed to hold as normal. Once I discovered that the needed Java app wouldn't work, I uninstalled the beta, reinstalled box-stock. Again, no config issues. Before everybody beats me like a rented mule, there was no risk to other users - I'm it, just with different logons. So I felt comfortable with picking up the pieces if it broke and did not grab one of my other machines for testing. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill