Per user installs?

[Tim]

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.

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2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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