Re: LilyDev4 and Guile2.2 ?

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 12 apr 2017 alle 17:51, Paul <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> Having been unsuccessful at getting LilyDev5 running on my laptop 
> using VirtualBox, I'm wondering how it would work to create a virtual 
> machine with LilyDev4 (which is working for me) and then uninstalling 
> guile1.8 and installing guile2.2.
>
> Is this a fool's errand?  I'm new to this dependency hell business, 
> would be a good induction, maybe too good?
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> -Paul

My suggestion is:

1. copy LilyDev4 virtualbox file somewhere (so you can still run 
LilyDev4 in case of troubles)
2. upgrade it to stretch. There's a tutorial here: 
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-debian-8-jessie-to-debian-9-stretch

Or learn libvirt. I'm happy to help with this if you want to try.