[Ardour-Users] multiple installs of ardour

[John Rigg]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:02:29PM +0100, Nick Ramm wrote:
> Is it okay to have more than one version of ardour installed on the same OS at the same time (but not running)?
> WHat i mean is could  i have them both installed and then run one after the other?
> 
> I am asking because i have been having some issues with ardour3 and thought that having ardour 2.8.11 installed as well might be causing some problems.

I've had both installed on my production DAW for a while now with no
problems. I use 2.8.x for work and ardour3 for testing. If you're starting
them from the command line in Linux, 2.8.x start command is ardour2, and for
3.x it's ardour3, so there's no confusion there. 

I keep separate directories for ardour2 and ardour3 sessions to avoid
mistakes (like accidentally opening an a2 session in a3 and finding it no
longer works in a2).

John