Two concurrent versions

[carlnielsen]

Hi

One great thing about Slimjet is that you can download and install old versions. Our wonderful revenue service still relies of Adobe Flash for all forms, so I need to run Slimjet 14 specifically for that webiste. But of course, Slimjet is also my main browser. Is it possible to run both versions concurrently. I am running in Linux Mint.

[oftentired]

I've never tried it, but you should be able to. You would need to have one of the installations as stand-alone in order to have both "installed" at the same time. I suggest ver 14 as stand-alone since you will not be upgrading that one. And auto update from a full install of the current version shouldn't affect the stand-alone from ver 14.

Be sure and turn auto-update off on your ver 14.

[carlnielsen]

Great. Thanks. Will try that.

How to install as stand-alone? I assume I just install from the Zip download? Will try that anyway.

[carlnielsen]

I tried extracting the zip to opt/slimjet14 and running flashpeak-slimjet from there, but it got confused and just opened a new window in my existing (and running) ver23 of the software. I had a quick look in the flashpeak-slimjet script: it is way beyond me, but I did see a reference to /opt/slimjet (which is my "live" version of the software). So that might be why? Maybe I can move my main slimjet to /opt/slimjet-live or something like that, but I am worried that will break other things.

[oftentired]

Someone running Linux needs to step in here. I'm not so good with Linux technical issues.

[sleeper10]

Perhaps you should ask this question on the Linux Mint forum:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/