On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 10:20 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > What if, for example, a specific user preferred an application, > say, Amarok v1.4 and yet another user prefers Amarok v2.0? > > I surmise that only one package of the same application can > be installed in the /usr/share directory? Not necessarily... For example, my Fedora 9 box has the following in its /usr/share/ directory, and I didn't arrange this: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-11-06 02:40 audacity drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-11-06 02:40 audacity13 You can see something similar with various versions of Java in there. There'll be a symlink pointing to a particular binary to run, that will run your default. And you'd pick the other version by running a different binary file, or different symlink. ll /usr/bin/audacity* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4993764 2008-08-23 14:22 /usr/bin/audacity -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3965112 2008-08-23 14:22 /usr/bin/audacity13 And the Gnome menu has them both listed separately. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
