On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 14:09, Woodrow Stool woodrow.stool@gmail.com wrote:
I think what the OP was asking was something like this:
Ubuntu 20.04
Geany 1.36 from the Ubuntu distro, installed with apt install geany
Now 1.37.1 is available. It will be a long time before this hits the Ubuntu repo. What is the best way to install it now, keeping my settings?
An upgrade won't touch any customising you did in your local configure directories, but if you are one of those people who customised the system files then yes it will overwrite them. In that case you need to copy the changes to a non-system configuration first and don't touch system files again.
Ok, maybe saying "upgrade" might be confusing after having said there is no such thing, read that as "install". But otherwise its as stated, installing won't touch your local config, just go ahead and install it.
If you want a version newer than the distro has, you need to build it yourself, see the HACKING file, and also since the processes and tools are standard for open source C software, there should be help on the web for details. Since distros vary slightly you may need to find where your distro put the old Geany to set the prefix. Or you may decide to put it somewhere totally different, just don't forget to set your PATH.
Installing _will_ overwrite the system config files which are the defaults. As I said, if you have modified system files then you have done a "bad thing" (TM) because they will get overwritten by the next install, so I hope nobody has done that. Just in case somebody has, you need to copy the changed settings into a local config first or they will be overwritten, how and what files depends on what you changed.
I'd be interested in the answer to this question myself. The reply from Lex didn't really answer that question, IMHO.
As I said, its standard processes and tools for building open source software and the HACKING file provides more information.
Cheers Lex
- Woody
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:21 PM Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mike,
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 10:45, Mike McCauley mlmccauley50@gmail.com wrote:
Under Ubuntu Linux, what is the recommended technique to upgrade Geany as newer versions are released?
All I've been able to find online is info on how to do an initial install, and some upgrade suggestions that didn't work.
Thats because there is no such thing as an "upgrade" of Geany, a new install replaces the old install (unless specially built to not do that, which (AFAIK) no distros do).
I've put a ton of time into customizing my install, and I for sure don't want to screw up and have an "upgrade trick" wipe all that out.
An upgrade won't touch any customising you did in your local configure directories, but if you are one of those people who customised the system files then yes it will overwrite them. In that case you need to copy the changes to a non-system configuration first and don't touch system files again.
I am only in interested in installing stable code, not bleeding edge development versions.
Distro versions are usually releases so thats as stable as it gets. That doesn't mean that there are no issues with a release, but by the time it has percolated through most distro systems it should be fairly stable so long as its the latest micro point release for the platform (1.37.0 for Linux, 1.37.1 for Windows as this is written).
If you want to upgrade bypassing the distro system, you can build yourself with a different prefix so it doesn't overwrite an existing version, thats how developers maintain multiple versions.
Cheers Lex
Thanks in advance!
Mike
REF: Ubuntu 20.04, Geany 1.36
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