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considering whether android studio stable and preview should be installed at separate locations

Open hereisderek opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

after following the steps (add/update), when install, got the following error on kubuntu 16.04 lts:

`root@derek-linux:/home/derek/Downloads# apt-fast install android-studio-beta android-studio-canary

Working... this may take a while. E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

No files to download. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: android-studio-beta : Conflicts: android-studio-canary but 145.3001415~xenial is to be installed android-studio-canary : Conflicts: android-studio-beta but 143.2915827~xenial+fix1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. `

hereisderek avatar Jul 02 '16 14:07 hereisderek

it seems that the issue is that you can't have multiple versions side by side. would It be possible to make that happen?

hereisderek avatar Jul 02 '16 14:07 hereisderek

It would not be a logical use case because they'd most of the time share their working directory.

It would technically be possible if using different extraction paths though.

mfonville avatar Jul 02 '16 14:07 mfonville