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August 21, 2013
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installing 6.0 m090 alongside existing 6.0 m010 installation

  • August 21, 2013
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Hiya,

I am attempting to install 6.0 m090 alongside an existing 6.0 m010
installation but the installer is only providing me the option to upgrade
the m010 installation. How do I force a full installation?

I read the install.pdf provided w/m090 (which was apparently updated last
for m040) but it didn't have anything specific about doing this other than
it mentioned both full and upgrade installation possibilities.

What am I missing?

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Paul Nagai

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    ebenton1-Visitor
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    August 21, 2013
    Just SWAG-ing here. If you are running setup.exe, does the MSI give you more options? Or vice versa?
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    jsillari1-Visitor
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    August 21, 2013
    Paul:

    Did you try specifying an alternate path for the installation?

    John Sillari
    Chief Technologist
    Dayton T. Brown, Inc.
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    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 21, 2013
    Hi Ed, Hi John,

    Thanks for the ideas.

    Ed, I tried running the MSI ... no joy ... same dilemma. And, John, way
    before I can choose an alternate directory (which is what we have been
    doing since way back deep into the 4.x era), I am presented with an Upgrade
    or Cancel choice. It gets worse. I just uninstalled everything, installed
    m090 clean, and am now trying to install m010 ... it fails utterly stating
    it is unable to "upgrade" m090.

    Sigh. This could be bad. Opening a case w/PTC. Surely there's a command
    switch that will ignore a pre-existing install.



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    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 21, 2013
    Support just confirmed that this is part of the product specification of
    Arbortext Editor 6.0.

    I can't tell you how much this is going to impact our ability to Arbortext
    Editor. Wow. Just wow.


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    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 21, 2013
    Am I the only one who missed this way back when 6.0 rolled out or was this
    "feature" buried or not even mentioned?


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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    August 21, 2013
    Welcome to the brave new world! 🙂

    We have shifted to using Virtual Machines for all our dev/test environments now, eg. one for production (6.0 M010 in your case), one for staging (6.0 M010 soon to be M090), one for dev (6.0 M090) …

    -Gareth
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    jsillari1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 21, 2013
    Gareth:

    Virtualization is cheap. Excellent. Any issues with licensing via Flex?

    John Sillari
    Chief Technologist
    Technical Services Division
    Dayton T. Brown, Inc.

    On Aug 21, 2013, at 14:35, "Gareth Oakes" <goakes@gpslsolutions.com<<a style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline&quot;=" target="_BLANK" href="mailto:goakes@gpslsolutions.com">>">mailto:goakes@gpslsolutions.com>> wrote:

    Welcome to the brave new world! 🙂

    We have shifted to using Virtual Machines for all our dev/test environments now, eg. one for production (6.0 M010 in your case), one for staging (6.0 M010 soon to be M090), one for dev (6.0 M090) …

    -Gareth
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    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 21, 2013
    I am using some virtualization for testing and, it turns out, may be
    getting additional hardware for testing as well. But unless all our authors
    are provided a virtual environment in addition to their workstations, it
    does not ease my migration planning headaches induced by this inability to
    install two versions of 6.0.



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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    August 21, 2013
    Good question John 🙂

    Arbortext 6.0 applications which are using a node-locked (fixed) license won't work over an RDP or Windows Terminal Services connection. You can get around this in essentially one of two ways:

    1. Use alternative remote connection software such as VNC.
    2. Upgrade your license to a concurrent (floating), or registered user license. These configurations will require a license server.

    We avoid most of the problems on our developer machines because they are using desktop VMware hosted on their own machines. VMware on the desktop uses a direct console emulation to connect to the VM's screen/keyboard and therefore avoids triggering the FlexNet RDP issues. The same is true of VirtualBox, I believe, but is NOT true of Windows Virtual PC which does use an RDP link even on the desktop.

    -Gareth
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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    August 21, 2013
    Hi Paul,

    A trick we used to use on APP (not sure if it works so well for Editor or not).

    1. Install 6.0 M010.
    2. Copy the entire 6.0 M010 program folder to somewhere else as an exact copy.
    3. Upgrade 6.0 M010 to 6.0 M090.
    4. Restore the original 6.0 M010 folder and see if you can still load Editor 🙂

    -Gareth
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