Re: having trouble finding a packaged version of Lilypond

[Paul Scott]

Peter Dobratz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I first started using Lilypond during the 1.4.x days.  Looking over
> some of my sources that I was in the middle of updating for Mutopia I
> see \version 1.6.6 in the header.  Right now I'm at the point where I
> want to get back to working on the sources and I can't seem to find a
> suitable Lilypond install.  Let me first of all congratulate all the
> developers on all their hard work.  Often Lilypond improves too fast
> for me to keep up and with every new version there are quite a lot of
> useful new features.
>
> My primary system is Debian Unstable (i386), but the only version
> available in the archive is 2.1.0 (which I assume is quite out of date
> by now).
>
>  

It's not clear how recent a version you want.  I am running Debian 
unstable and I use the latest version, now 2.1.21, thanks to either 
Pedro Kroeger or Ferenc Wagner.  This information is available by simply 
going to the Lily web site, http://lilypond.org/web/index.html and 
clicking on Download here under the version you want under 'News'.  You 
will find the lines for your sources.list so you can apt-get.

Paul Scott