Re: [Caml-list] Opam: using both 1.2 and 2.0

["Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr>]

Hi,

Daniel Bünzli (2019/01/07 10:52 +0100):
> On 7 January 2019 at 10:25:10, Sébastien Hinderer (sebastien.hinderer@inria.fr) wrote:
> 
> > Will try that! Thanks! But still have to figure out how to install opam
> > 1 I guess, because it will probably not be possible to install it
> > through the distribution's package manager.
> 
> opam dev's are kind enough to provide you with a selection of binaries here: 
> 
>   https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/tag/1.2.2
> 
> I never tried them though. Otherwise given an OCaml install, compiling
> from the tarball should be easy has never been a problem since it's
> self-contained.

I just wanted to thank you for the suggestion and confirm that it worked
quite well. I downloaded the binary for my platform and installed it in my
private bin directory as 'opam1'. When I want to use it, rather than the
system-provided opam (version 2), I create a symlink in my bin
directory.

Then I just had to do:

opam init --root=~/.opam1

and everything wored fine.

Bets wishes,

Sébastien.