Re: help

It's not so much policy as practicality - things can change a lot
between versions, plugins can start or stop working properly, and
plugins must be of the same version as the main program. If you don't
install the plugins at all, in theory you should be able to just
overwrite upgrade rather than uninstall. If you have plugins, you must
upgrade all of them. In practice, while it's not impossible to upgrade
without uninstall, it is prone to some problems due to old versions
being left around (especially if you're running AbiWord while upgrading
- then you aren't really actually doing anything at all). I know for a
fact that going from a 2.2 release to a 2.4 release without uninstalling
can cause a fairly reliably-recognizable problem, seen at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9624 . Additionally, if
you have any "weird" problems, the first suggestion I would offer on
Windows is to follow the instructions at that bug: uninstall all Abi
stuff, delete the Program Files directory, and re-install.

In conclusion for those who like to just skim :D - uninstall at the very
least, and uninstall with directory removal when going to a new series
(2.2-2.4, 2.4-2.6) or when you have "weird" problems.

Hope this helps!

Ryan

Mark Richardson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:56:20 -0800, Gerard Huijing
> <inboxgen@gerardh.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure why installing over a previous version sometimes makes no
> difference but sometimes causes weirdness. In my case, it has caused
> glitches that I could solve only by thoroughly uninstalling the
> previous version--not just using the uninstall utility but manually
> removing any trace of previous plugins.
>
> But Gerard has shown Mary Sage that she need not uninstall at all.
>
> It would be helpful to know if there's been some change in Abi policy
> about installing over previous versions.
>
> --Mark Richardson
>
>> I have installed my newer Abiword versions over the existing one from
>> days of yore without any problems, so I think there should be no
>> problem either in reinstalling Abi, with the Startfolder option
>> checked, with or without uninstalling first.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gerard
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