Installing different versions of XBMC in parallel?

[hal2100]

Hello,

is there a way to install different versions of XBMC (e.g. latest stable and a latests svn version) in parallel? The last time I installed a svn version it completely overwrote my old settings and the old installation. The configuration of the install path only changes the location of the xbmc.bin.

Or, as an alternative solution, is there a (proper) way of starting XBMC without "make install"?

Thanks in advance.

[hikaricore]

If you remove move/remove the config files from your home directory, they'll be stored in the install path.
The issue you have is that xbmc looks in the home folder first if I'm not mistake as this is its nature.

./configure --prefix=/pathtoinstallin
make
make install

You can do this as many times as you want with different paths.
Alternatively you can always install it to the same path, however moving the previous version to another directory before installing.

[hal2100]

If you remove move/remove the config files from your home directory, they'll be stored in the install path.
The issue you have is that xbmc looks in the home folder first if I'm not mistake as this is its nature.


This doesn't seem to work. If I copy over the userdata content over to "/share/xbmc/userdata" the advancedsettings.xml is not accepted, nor are the other config files.

Do I miss a command line switch here?