gnucash versions 2.2 and 2.3 on same PC?

[Colin Law]

2009/7/16 John Griessen <john at cibolo.com>:
> Colin Law wrote:
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>> 2009/7/15 Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>:
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>>> You should be OK if you install all the relevant -devel packages from the
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> Before you search for the needed tool --devel packages, try this on ubuntu:
> sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash-testing
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> That should start an install process for all the compiler tools needed to
> compile gnucash.
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> gnucash-testing is a guess at the name.  Maybe just gnucash for that.
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Many thanks to all who have made suggestions on this topic, I have
successfully built gnucash (using the --prefix option) and got it
running ok with the stable version installed on the same machine.  I
have a couple of issues, firstly that both versions try to use the
same .gnucash folder which causes problems as the new version upgrades
the contents of data there, and secondly that when I open the stable
version it attempts to open the (database) file previously opened in
the later version.  I have not tried it yet but I think the easiest
way to avoid this is to have another (Ubuntu) user and logon as one
for the stable version and the other for the later version.

As a matter of interest where is the knowledge of which file was
previously opened saved?  I cannot seem to find it.

Thanks again

Colin Law