Update LyX with 64-bit installer on Windows

[_johnny7_ger at web.de]

Perfect, thank you for elaborating on this. I suspected something along
these lines but wanted to be sure. It is generally handy to be able to
update so it is good to hear this will still be supported (but I assume
for 2.4 it won't be possible?).

Am 02.12.2020 um 19:42 schrieb Yu Jin:
> Am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020 um 13:25 Uhr schrieb <_johnny7_ger at web.de
> <mailto:johnny7_ger at web.de>>:
>
>     Thanks for all your work and for the release of LyX 2.3.6!
>
>     I was wondering how to proceed with the new installer on Windows. With
>     former version updates it worked fine just to run the installer
>     and put
>     the new version over the old one.
>
> This is not intended for this release particularly. The new installer
> also supports this feature, but it does not support installing into a
> LyX directory where LyX was installed with the old installer. Please
> uninstall the old Version and install LyX 2.3.6 into an empty folder.
> You will be able to install the next releases over this one (and the
> following ones) again as before. It is just once that you need to
> uninstall the old versions (prior to 2.3.6) because the installer
> changed now.
>
>     The new 64-bit installer does not
>     automatically detect my LyX installation in "C:\Program Files (x86)"
>     (for 32-bit programmes) but chooses "C:\Program Files".
>
> This is intended, on 64 bit Windows "Program Files (x86)" contains 32
> bit applications, while 64 bit applications are installed in "Program
> Files".
>
>     Can I safely
>     uninstall the old version and keep all my settings?
>
> Yes, if you don't choose "LyX's users preferences" while uninstalling,
> it should not remove the preferences.
>
>     Is uninstalling the
>     previous version the recommended procedure?
>
>  Yes, as written above and just announced on LyX mailing lists.
>
>
>     (If I remember correctly, the former installer asked whether I
>     wanted to
>     install LyX for all users or only for me whereas the new installer,
>     started as a normal user, assumes I want to install it only for myself
>     and thus chooses "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local" which would be an
>     unusual
>     choice. I can of course avoid this by starting the installer as an
>     admin
>     but I think this worked differently before.)
>
> The behavior here is the same as before. When you start installation
> as a user without admin permissions, you will only be able to install
> for yourself. If you run as admin or as a user with admin permissions,
> then you will be able to choose to install for yourself or all using
> this computer.
> --
>     Eugene