Re: Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
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- Subject: [mg86602] Re: [mg86578] Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:19:18 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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When you say you "installed 6.0.2 on top of 6.0.1", do you mean into the SAME $InstallationDirectory? Except when a program installer (or documentation) explicitly tells me I can do that, I would never do so. Helen Read wrote: > Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> Andrew Moylan wrote: >>> On Mar 11, 7:00 pm, =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! >>> Yes, do uninstall first. If you don't, you may encounter problems such >>> as this: >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/= >>> thread/8300a97190bd0c3b/f35b55aec1ae60a3?lnk=gst&q=%24Failed+drawing+too= >>> ls#f35b55aec1ae60a3 >> This is a problem that occurs only if one has moved palettes to a new >> location? Because if you install 6.0.2 in an $InstallationDirectory >> separate from that for 6.0.1, why should it be a problem? >> > > Evidently it's an issue with the installer. > > I installed 6.0.2 on top of 6.0.1 on a fairly new XP desktop PC, and it > failed to put the new DrawingTools palette where it need to go. I have > always installed all versions of Mathematica to the default directory, > and have not moved the palettes (or anything else) around. The problem > did not occur on my (older) XP laptop. Someone from Wolfram called me on > the phone to get some more details, because they had not been able to > reproduce the issue. The suspicion, after talking to me, was that the > reason for the different behavior was that my laptop had had older > versions of Mathematica installed, whereas the first version installed > on the desktop was 6.0.0. WRI was able to reproduce the problem after > talking to me, but did not have a fix for it other than uninstalling, > deleting the installation directory, and reinstalling. > > I didn't have the problem when I installed 6.0.2 over top of 6.0.1 on a > Vista machine (which also never had anything prior to v.6), so this is > seemingly an XP specific problem. > > -- > Helen Read > University of Vermont > -- 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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- Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
- From: Andrew Moylan <andrew.j.moylan@gmail.com>
- Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
- From: Helen Read <read@math.uvm.edu>
- Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?