Instructions for portable installation of IDE 2.0

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I am running IDE 1.8.9 on Windows 10. I would like to build a new stand-alone installation of a newer IDE version so downloaded the .zip file for IDE 2.0.0-beta.9. I extracted the files to a new folder per the instructions for building a portable version. The folder structure under 2.0.0 is completely different from 1.8.9 so I'm not sure where to put the new portable folder. I put portable in the /arduino-ide_2.0.0-beta.9_Windows_64bit folder but when I start 2.0.0 from Arduino IDE.exe it is still using all of my old files, such as boards from C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Arduino15. I can't see any evidence that 2.0.0 is running in portable mode. How do I configure 2.0.0 for portable mode?

Thanks,
P.

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Hi @PaulMathews. Thanks for giving the beta stage Arduino IDE 2.x a try!

There is not currently any support for portable mode. This deficiency is being tracked by the developers here:

You can configure some of the folders the IDE uses in the C:\Users\me\.arduinoIDE\arduino-cli.yaml file. Information about the available configuration options here:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/configuration/

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Hi Pert,
Thanks for the response. I'm sorry I missed the other posting about 2.0 not being available in portable mode yet.

I was interested in installing a newer version than 1.8.9 to try to debug problems that have cropped up in old STM32F103 sketches. I thought that by running those under 2.0 in portable mode I could keep the the two versions separate so as not to propagate problems from the old version to the new one. Would changes to the arduino-cli.yaml file affect both installations or is that file unique to 2.0?

Thanks for your help.
P.

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It is unique to Arduino IDE 2.x. The classic Arduino IDE does not use this file, or even the C:\Users\me\.arduinoIDE folder at all.

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@Paul Mathews:

Hello Paul,
I still try the same with IDE 2.0: I would like to run it on a offline win 10 Pc. I got some recommendations from pert, but up to now I was not able to start the offline version. I still have an open threat too about this topic. Have you solved the problem?
Thanks and best regards
Tom1000

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Hi Tom,
No, I have not pursued the issues with IDE 2.0. I understand from Pert
that IDE 2.0 can be configured to run using the settings in
arduino-cli.yaml without affected previous versions of the IDE but I
have not tried that yet and don't have any time to do so in the near
future. Let me know if you get anywhere.

Thanks,

P.

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For the benefit of others interested in this subject who find this thread, I'll share a link to the other thread mentioned by tom10001, which contains some additional information:

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