Version 3.6.2 and 4.2 working together in Linux

• Jan 1, 2024 - 11:18

Hello.

I've already read the posts https://musescore.org/en/node/339264 and https://musescore.org/en/node/339235, but they seem to apply to Windows 10 (and perhaps 11).

What about having two working musescore installations (3.6.2 and >=4.2) in Linux, and specifically, in a package managed system like Fedora (rpm/dnf)?

I have just upgraded from Fedora38 to Fedora39 and it has also upgraded my Musescore 3.6.2 to the 4.2.

The problem is that there are too many differences (in the instrument definition for example) and I am urged to finish an score this week.

Thanks in advance.

Notes: In my case:

1) working with snap and similar is problematic in my case, as my installation has several soft links in the /home/user directory/partition, and it messes up technologies like snap/flatpack/etc.

2) I don't need to run them side by side. I just need to start one or the other version, no simultaneity needed.

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• Jan 1, 2024 - 11:23

Package managers have their own agenda - refer to them, please.

I have many MuseScore programs (mostly AppImage) running on my PC which mainly uses ubuntu 22.04.03 LTS
and I don't have significant problems.

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• Jan 1, 2024 - 11:42

Thank you very much for your feedback.

I will try (again) to install as a image. As you suggested, I tried the AppImage version.

Now the problem is that you can get older installer versions of Musescore for Windows10. But for the AppImage, I have not been able to find how to get to the older AppImage of Musescore (looking for 3.6.2). It seems that there is available only the present version (4.2) in https://musescore.org/es/download/musescore-x86_64.AppImage

Do you know if there is a repository of the old versions of Musescore in AppImage format?

(Not found on https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases, only present release is linked)

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