HowTo running 5.0.0 aside 4.0.7 on debian?

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My introduction to KiCad software was at

Since 5.0.0 was released as stable, I downloaded the 5.0.0 deb package for my 64-bit -amd64 x86_64 debian linux architecture PC from


and saved it to my /home/user/Downloads/kicad_5.0.0+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
I renamed /home/user/kicad /home/user/kicad4

Since I have gotten kicad 4.0.7 to print traces onto a pdf, I am reluctant to overwrite it. If I installed the 5.0.0 deb
package using dpkg, will my kicad 4.0.7 still work?
I read about using a VM at

[edit, Joan: I changed title to reflect content better]

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I replaced 4.0.7 w/ 5.0.0.
I tried to delete this thread, but failed. My mistake. Sorry.
Please consider this thread obsolete, and delete it. Thank you.

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There’s no need to delete this kind of thread, the question was reasonable. Here’s one thread about it:

How to install different versions side by side is another matter.

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