How to make flame upgrade

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HI!
I’m asking here cause we haven’t discreet support anymore but we need to reinstall
properly our flame on linux.
Problem we have is, each time we make an upgrade we have new profil at startup page from Red hat (new icon logon).
So after 2 flame’s upgrade we get now 3 flame’s login icon and of course 3 differents working flame on same machine.
It’s written on the Doc to make upgrade and forget older realese we just need to take “NONE” from the script install, and with this way we should have only the last one…But it doesn’t works 🙁
Thanks
Any ideas are welcome.

PS: a lot of thanks to fxguide for their GREAT job at IBC (can’t wait to watch episode 02) hope to find also good report from Autodesk flame new features on live show)

[cyril conforti]

The install guides that Autodesk provides are quite good at walking you thru step by step to install from scratch. You could get a new flame up and running in less that 2 hours. But if all you are saying is you want to remove the login icons of older versions from the login screen, well, reinstalling would be a bit of overkill for that. Also, your english is horrible.

[David Ellis]

alatteri
1) i don’t need your support and time to tell me how to read guides from Autodesk.
If i’m asking here it’s because the solution for my case is not inside !
I don’t need to make a fresh install (or my kid 10 years old is able to do it)
All i need is to know if there is a way to upgrade to get at the end 1 Flame and not 2
(the old one + new one).
2)Sorry for my poor English, and i would love to see you writing a post in Russian.
But i agree, it should be very horrible cause you have understood nothing on my request 🙂

[Nick]

hmm, you were the guy that was giving away “educational” flame/smoke 08 licenses? Actually “…. able to make them…” !!!

http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/licenses-edu-smoke-flame-07-t14262.html?t=14262

[Piotr Kolus]

Interesting …

But to answer your question, the flame installer offers an -uninstall option, try that and hope it doesn’t uninstall a crucial component of the version you actually want to run. Even if it does, you can always reinstall the latest version after.

If you just want to get rid of the multiple logins, you can uninstall them from the redhat user control panel. Every version of IFF is associated with it’s own user and home directory, so make sure to backup all the files you want to keep.
(None of this is specific to ADSK btw, just general linux knowledge.)

It’s more of a cosmetic thing really, I just worked on a flint system with all versions since 2007 installed and it didn’t have any problems.

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

install the new version that u need and then once its up and running fine, go to the user control panel and remove the other users..if u really wanna remove the older versions, backup everything especially your setups, uninstall all of them except the current one, and then do the upgrade…its always good to have 2 working versions of the software.

[Martin Furness]

I’m currently running 2 versions of Flame as well. The just in case factor of installing new versions, there’s always the thought of something not working so well immediately. I like the banter on this thread. LOL

[Dan Carr]

strange because each time you make a upgrade, you also get the SW support for a year…So discreet should be able to help you.

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