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Re: Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?

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• Subject: [mg86521] Re: [mg86481] Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:30:15 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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What sort of problems? Something to do with paclet updates?

I ask because in the past I've always left the preceding version 
installed at least for some time so that I could take care of 
compatibility issues.

Nazdrovje wrote:
> On Mar 11, 10:00 am, =EA=CD=EA=CD <huihui.... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to upgrade Mathematica from v6.0 to v6.0.1. Can I just install
>> the new version directly without uninstalling the old version? Should
>> I uninstall the old version manually before upgrading?
>>
>> Thanks very much!
> 
> I had problems going from 6.0.1. to 6.0.2 that were only solved by
> uninstalling 6.0.1 first and then manually removing all remnents of
> the 6.0 folder...
> 

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