Can I replace the current qbittorent-nox I installed from another source?

[abubin]

There is another qbittorent-nox that has not been updated anymore. I do not remember how I installed this but it is currently at version 4.5.5.99. I am on Ubuntu 22.04.

Can I just replace this qbittorrent-nox-static on the existing qbittorrent-nox file and restart the program?
Does all the configs remain the same so that all my current seeds and torrent in progress will just pickup from here?
Current config is saved in ~/.config/qBittorent.

Thanks.

[userdocs]

It should be a drop in replacement but there are maybe times when version differences cause loading problems from the config of the existing one. IT was probably apt via ubuntu packages or via official ppa

I think people normally remove or disable the system version then drop this in the ~/bin dir and see how it goes.

if your config is in the same ~/ as the bin dir i think it will try to load it.

So as I said, it should work but you might have issues if the version gap or settings conflict.