Change intel parallel Studio 2018 install directory

Question

I am going crazy with the parallel studio installer. I installed some time ago PS2018.1 in a first directory. Now I would like to install PS2018.2 in another directory.

The installer tells me that I cannot install PS2018.2 in another directory because it has detected my previous installation of PS2018.1. So I uninstalled PS2018.1 with the uninstall_GUI.sh tool in the PS2018.1 install directory, and remove manually this (cleaned) install directory.

But when I try to install PS2018.2, the installer still says that I have a previous installation (which does not exists anymore...) and so do not let me install where I want.

My questions are:

• How does the installer detect this previous installation whereas I uninstalled it. There must be a file storing that information somewhere, but where?

• Is it possible to have multiple installations of PS at the same time?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. It seems there is some metadata stored in

/opt/intel

so basically although i had specified a different install dir, /opt/intel was still created. So if you are sure you do not want the content of /opt/intel (such as the license info and you can re-activate it) just delete /opt/intel. That solved the problem for me at least.