One Plugin Deactivate Another without calling hook?

I have a plugin that I’m working on both a lite and pro version, I want the pro version to, on activate, test to see if the lite version is installed, if it is, I want it to alter the database tables for the pro version and automatically deactivate the lite version (lite version does drop table on deactivate). Is it possible to do this? or should I rename the tables then alter them? or maybe create new tables, copy data from lite tables, then deactivate lite? what are your recommendations to how I can proceed most efficiently?