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Cheers Lex
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 01:42, Mike McCauley mlmccauley50@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/8/20 10:21 PM, Lex Trotman 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).
Understood.
I'm relatively new to Linux, so I'm not aware of some of these conventions. Good to know this.
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.
If I'm interpreting your remarks correctly, I'm OK.
I did NOT alter any of the build files for the package, I did a plain vanilla default install. All of what I've done subsequent to that is purely configuration setup, mainly coloration and keyword info in a new config file for a Geany-unsupported compiler that I frequently use for developing embedded system code for PIC processors.
So, as I understand, what I need to do is simply perform the "new install" procedure again, and none of my configuration work will be altered. Nothing I added will be deleted, only the install-created config files will be overwritten.
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
Understood.
All I'm interested in is availing myself of enhancements and bug fixes. I have no interest in having anything other than the latest stable rev installed on my machine.
Thanks a lot for the help!
Mike
Thanks in advance!
Mike
REF: Ubuntu 20.04, Geany 1.36
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