[ardour-users] Running two versions of ardour

[Jesse Chappell]

The way that developers do it, is to leave CCRMAs version installed,
and then run the most recent version from the build directory
itself.   However, installing with the /usr/local prefix should
also work fine, assuming you explicitly execute the right one.

jlc

Nathaniel Virgo wrote on Mon, 14-Jun-2004:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > This seems like a bit of a silly question, but I want to try out the 
 > latest beta while also being able to use the Planet CCRMA-installed 
 > beta11.2 which has proved itself to be reasonably stable.  Can I just 
 > install the tarball and run /usr/bin/ardour or /usr/local/bin/ardour 
 > depending on which one I want or will that mess things up?  Or is there 
 > a better way to do it?