[cw-discuss] cxmessage: not found error when trying to install CX 6.2

[Graham Allan]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Brian C wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to install the trial of CX 6.2.  I already had CX 6.1 
> > installed. I always do a clean install instead of an upgrade.  So I 
> > deleted the ~/.cxoffice and /opt/cxoffice folders,
> 
> This is the wrong way to uninstall CrossOver Office. When you did the 
> above, you left the ~/.loki directory so that CrossOver now thinks it is 
> already installed. You also left all the systen-wide menus, associations 
> and plugins behind.
> 
> The proper way to uninstall CrossOver is to use 
> /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxuninstall or the corresponding menu, which will 
> automatically do the right thing depending on how you installed 
> CrossOver (Loki installer, Debian package, or RPM). If you used a Debian 
> package or an RPM, then going through the corresponding manager works 
> too of course.

This reminds me of a couple of questions, which I had wondered about
before.

If Crossover Office is installed using a package manager (eg the rpm
version), does an uninstall or upgrade via rpm or yum "do the right
thing"? Or do you still need to explicitly run
/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxuninstall?

Then also, when considering a managed (multi-user) installation - if
the systemwide version of Crossover Office is upgraded (or uninstalled
and reinstalled with a newer version), what happens with individual
users ~/.cxoffice directory contents? Obviously they are left alone -
but does this imply problems when the users run the new version?

Thanks,

Graham
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