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

[Brian C]

> 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.
Thanks.  I did not know about the .loki folder.  I removed that, problem
solved.  I had actually already removed the CX plugins, and I manually
control my system menus so I already new to remove them.

On 10/10/07, Graham Allan <allan at physics.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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