[Geany-Users] proper upgrade technique

[Lex Trotman]

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Lex

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 01:42, Mike McCauley <mlmccauley50 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/8/20 10:21 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
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> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 10:45, Mike McCauley <mlmccauley50 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Under Ubuntu Linux, what is the recommended technique to upgrade Geany
> as newer versions are released?
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Understood.
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> I'm relatively new to Linux, so I'm not aware of some of these conventions. Good to know this.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If I'm interpreting your remarks correctly, I'm OK.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I am only in interested in installing stable code, not bleeding edge
> development versions.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Cheers
> Lex
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> Understood.
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> 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.
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> Thanks a lot for the help!
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> Mike
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Mike
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