Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 beta 64-bit

[Dave_L]

[Ubuntu 12.04.5]

$ sudo dpkg --install --simulate bcompare-4.1.0.20251_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package bcompare.
dpkg: error processing bcompare-4.1.0.20251_amd64.deb (--install):
 bcompare: 4.1.0-20251 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with bcompare:i386 4.0.7-19761 (Multi-Arch: no) which is currently installed
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bcompare-4.1.0.20251_amd64.deb

Do you recommend uninstalling BC 4.0 before installing 4.1?

By the way, thanks for adding native 64-bit support.

[David]

From my testing, 4.1.0 amd64 can be installed with i386 in place. However, it may make i386 non-functional. Depending on your distro it will install amd64 in either /usr/lib/beyondcompare (replacing the i386 version) or in /usr/lib64/beyondcompare. In either case the same config directory (usually ~/.config/bcompare) will be used for both.

So I have not found it physically necessary to uninstall 4.0.7 for 4.1.0 to run. However, we have found that some of the package managers will request that 4.0.7 be uninstalled first.

Also, there will be new dependencies that need to be installed so you will need to use an install method that checks for and installs dependencies. Double clicking on the .deb from the gui would do this. Or with dpkg you can do:

dpkg -i bcompare-4.1.0.20251_amd64.deb // this install bcompare
apt-get -fy install // this line installs dependencies

[Dave_L]

I uninstalled bcompare 4.0.7 with synaptic, and then installed bcompare 4.1.0 with dpkg using the command posted above. No problems so far. I didn't need to install any dependent packages; they're probably already installed.