| Re: removing old IDL versions 5.5beta win2k [message #28171] |
Tue, 27 November 2001 10:14  |
Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000
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What are you all guys talking about? All you have to do is take that
"IDL.very.old" folder and drag it into Trash. Nothing else is affected.
Or is it different on Windows ?...
(playing an ignorant fool and being sarcastic),
Pavel
Rick Towler wrote:
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> I know that you do not list 5.5 beta but others might be interested...
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> On win2k sp-2, with 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5beta installed the uninstall of 5.5beta
> really screwed up the works. u
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| Re: removing old IDL versions 5.5beta win2k [message #28173 is a reply to message #28171] |
Tue, 27 November 2001 09:29  |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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I know that you do not list 5.5 beta but others might be interested...
On win2k sp-2, with 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5beta installed the uninstall of 5.5beta
really screwed up the works. After uninstalling 5.5beta using the
"Add/Remove Programs" control panel, every time I started IE windows
installer would run. After a number of "Cancels" windows installer would go
away and IE would run. A real pain.
The fix (known well to windows users) was to uninstall ALL versions of IDL.
After all versions of IDL were uninstalled IE was happy.
This of course may NOT happen in every case but I am not in the mood to test
this on a second machine right now.
So windows beta testers beware. Have your licensing info and old IDL cds
ready to go if you uninstall 5.5beta.
-Rick
"Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg" <hvdosten@lb.netic.de> wrote in message
news:3C02B2F6.6174CF0C@lb.netic.de...
> Hi,
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> now I have ID 5.0, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 installed on my workstation. I would
> like to remove the older versions. But - before doing this - is this
> possible without any problems? Or should I take care of some libraries
> or so?
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> Thanks a lot
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> Harald
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> --
> Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg
> Geophysical Prospection of Archaeological Sites
> National Heritage Department of Baden-Wuerttemberg
> Silberburgstrasse 193, D-70178 Stuttgart
> Fax Office: +49-(0)711-1694-707
> http://www.lb.netic.de/hvdosten : Geomagnetics, Geoelectrics, Radar, EMI
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| Re: removing old IDL versions [message #28239 is a reply to message #28171] |
Wed, 28 November 2001 04:41 |
Struan Gray
Messages: 178
Registered: December 1995
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Pavel A. Romashkin, pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov writes:
> What are you all guys talking about? All you have
> to do is take that "IDL.very.old" folder and drag
> it into Trash. Nothing else is affected.
> Or is it different on Windows ?...
> (playing an ignorant fool and being sarcastic),
Pride comes before a fall.
IDL 5.5 on my powerbook kept failing at startup because
it was trying to use various libraries from the version 5.4
folder which I'd renamed and placed in the trash, but not
deleted.
Prior to 5.5 I'd never had a problem.
Struan
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