Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

[josiah boothby]

so, for instance /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin if the new is in
/usr/local/bin and the old is in /usr/bin?

but with the old binaries deleted, is the old installation still salvageable?

On 4/12/06, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting josiah boothby <address@hidden>:
>
> > Honestly, I think this is the problem:
> >
> >> I am afraid to lose the lilypond-snapshot 2.4.1 and remain with no
> >> working lilypond, which has become essential to me.
> >
> > My advice would be to uninstall this with apt-get, and try the GUB
> > installer. Deleting the binaries doesn't uninstall the program.
>
>
> As long as you make sure that the new LilyPond installation is
> placed in a directory that is before the old installation in the $PATH
> environment variable, there should be no need to remove
> the old version.
>
>   /Mats
>
>