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From: | Guy Stalnaker |
Subject: | Re: Multiple versions of Lilypond? |
Date: | Sat, 23 Oct 2021 18:39:31 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 |
Kira,
Your computer will care. Some operating systems
"register" installed applications to open certain kinds of files
(or files with specific extensions; e.g., Adobe Acrobat is
registered to open files with .pdf extensions so that one can
double-click on the file in the File Explorer and the
application will run and open the file).
By default Lilypond opens files with the .ly
extension. When you install Frescobaldi there is usually a step
where the installer specifically asks if you want it to open .ly
files.
Having more than one version of a program
installed requires that *you* keep track of which versions are
registered and also where they are installed. For example, if
Version X of ProgramA is installed and you then install Version
Y, typically the installers are written to install files into
the same path/folder. Thus Version Y will overwrite Version X.
To prevent that, many installers give you the option to
explicitly say where to install the application. That's what
you'll have to do here.
Many years ago I was the support triage agent for my
IT group at a large mid-western public university. I had 3-4
different versions of MS Office, Corel Office, Adobe (everything)
on the same computer (because there was no IT standardization
across the university that that's what it took to support the many
possible versions). It worked with due diligence (but no one,
ever, was allowed to touch that computer LOL).
Hope I've helped a little.
Regards.
On Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 5:58 PM
Kira Garvie <kgarvie@gmail.com>
wrote:
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