Downloading old versions

Ryan Nutt · Post by **Ryan Nutt** » 2006-08-25T17:48:22-07:00

What's the process to have more than one version of ImageMagick installed on Linux? I need a way to test a program and am having problems with older versions of IM.

Post by **anthony** » 2006-08-27T19:15:42-07:00

The problem with two versions is they will first need to build into two seperate locations (configure --prefix) and second you need to ensure that you environment look at one but not the other for the version you want to test.

No IM sould be instead in the main system libraries in that case.
This is not simple.

I myself often just de-install one IM (using RPM packages I built from the
src.rpm file) then install another to test different versions.

I have a good backup system that lets me recover old RPM builds quickly
to backtrack a specific problem.

In otherwords, I myself only ever install one IM version at a time.