PyCharm upgrading technology not understood
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I use PyCharm CE on Linux Mint. When I first tried it it was PyCharm40. Then I installed PyCharm50. Now I downloaded and installed PyCharm 2016.3.
And all prev. installations are present.
- I see .PyCharm40 and .PyCharm50 along with .PyCharm...2016.3 in my Home directory.
- I see PyCharm, PyCharm_4.0, pycharm-community-5.0.3 dirs in my /opt directory
- I've got the latest version in Downloads/.../pycharm-community-2016.3 - don't understand why not in /opt
And I don't need any of the prev. versions. So my questions are:
- Is it possible to install every new version so that in will be just "PyCharm", in the same directory and all the paths and env.variables are updated?
- How can I remove old versions? Is it up to cleaning directories or what?
Thanks!
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It's true, you could have as many versions installed at the same time as you want. And if you need to remove the old installation completely, please make the following:
- Delete the installation directory
- Delete the "config" and "system" configuration directories. These contain Pycharm caches, configurations and plugins. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544519 for the OS specific locations of these two directories. That should be all you need. But note you need to postpone deleting configuration folder until you import settings from it into a new version.
Also please check https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5722 and the related issue and vote for them to increase their priority and be notified about updates.
Anna,
Thank you for an answer!
I visited that issue you wrote about and voted for it :)