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Multiple Installations of FME Desktop in Parallel

If you want to have multiple of installations of FME Desktop on the same system, we recommend the following procedure:

  1. Install the first copy of FME Desktop as described in Installing FME Desktop on Linux.
  2. Copy the contents of the install directory (/opt/fme-desktop-<release>) to another location (for example, /home/user/fme-desktop-b18228).
  3. Install the second copy of FME Desktop as described in Installing FME Desktop on Linux.
  4. Run the first copy of FME Desktop directly from the location to which it was copied (for example, /home/user/fme-desktop-b18228) - not from a desktop shortcut. You can run the second copy of FME Desktop from a desktop shortcut, which points to the original install location (/opt/fme-desktop-<release>).