Re: having V6 and V7 available?
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- Subject: [mg94298] Re: [mg94265] having V6 and V7 available?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:44:30 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I often have both V6.0.3 and V7.0.0 open on my Windows XP machine without any real difficulty (although I haven't tried letting calculations run in the kernels from both at once). I keep all add-ons that are not part of the actual Wolfram distribution in a totally separate directory tree that becomes accessible to both versions by my setting the appropriate environment variables in the OS. To avoid license annoyances that otherwise seem to recur with this configuration, as soon as I install a new version, I immediately move its mathpass file -- which, due to the environment variables, go into that add-ons tree of mine -- into the version's own tree, e.g., in Wolfram Mathematica 7\Configuration\Licensing. wb at wavebounce.com wrote: > I'm using a Windows XP box. > > When updating from V5 to V6 I tried to have both versions running but failed. Something in the system made V5 unusable after V6 was installed. Now I'm considering the jump to V7 but I don't like taking the chance that some V6 programs will no longer be usable. > > Are most users able to have both installations working on the same machine? If so, any tips on how to do it? I haven't run across any instructions for this yet. > > Also, I hate to go through having to load all the addon packages, and init.m files, chase down and reload the palettes I use, etc. Any tips on how to ease this transfer? > > Thanks, Rob > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- having V6 and V7 available?
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- having V6 and V7 available?