Re: Installation Problems

[Thomas Kroedel]

Dear Christ,

Thank you very much for your advice. I'm sorry to keep
troubling you with this, but unfortunately I still
haven't made progress.

When I follow your instructions, the following
happens. First of all, the first line in the Cygwin
window (prior to me having entered any commands) reads
"bash: kpsexpand: command not found". When I enter
"which kpsexpand" I also get the response "bash:
kpsexpand: command not found". On entering "lilypond
-v", there is no response in the Cygwin window, but I
get a Windows alert telling me that lilypond.exe can't
be started because the component cygkpathsea-3.dll
can't be found. 

I checked that test.ly is of the right type, rather
than being test.txt.ly: if I right-click and choose
'Properties', the name is specied as "test", and the
file type as "LilyPond source". 

Is there anything else I could do?

Best wishes,

Thomas 





--- Christ van Willegen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> please try to keep all discussions on the list...
> 
> If you reply, use the 'reply to all' command in your
> mail program.
> 
> > Dear Christ,
> > 
> > Many thanks for your message. Alas, repeated
> > installations and downloads couldn't solve the
> > problem.
> So, it seems that Cygwin did correctly install all
> files, after all,
> and the problem may lie somewhere else.
> 
> > Do I perhaps need to install some auxillary
> software?
> Cygwin should (als probably has) install all
> software needed to run Lilypond.
> 
> > There are some remarks on
> > 
> > http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/INSTALL ,
> > 
> > but they are almost incomprehensible to a
> > narrow-minded Windows user like me. ;)
> These remarks are targeted at Linux machines, so you
> can rest assured
> that it wasn't necessary for you to comprehend :-)
> 
> > Best wishes,
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > P.S. Do I have to join some mailing list to be
> > officially eligible for your kind support?
> 
> You've sent you initial e-mail to
> address@hidden, which is the
> main mailing list used by Lilypond users to discuss
> Lilypond features,
> and installation problems. So, you don't need to
> subscribe (but I
> recommend that you do!) to receive help.
> 
> Ok, now for some more problem-solving tips...
> 
> Cygwin should install an icon on your desktop, that
> looks like the
> icon you can find on http://www.cygwin.com/ (the
> main Cygwin site). If
> you click it, a 'DOS window' should appear. Instead
> of C:> (or D:>),
> you should see a $ sign.
> 
> Try typing these commands:
> 
> which kpsexpand
> 
> and
> 
> lilypond -v
> 
> Also, please make sure that the file test.ly is
> called that, and not
> (accidentally) test.ly.txt. Although, by the looks
> of the error
> message you received, the file is called just that
> (because Lilypond
> _was_ invoked), it is never wrong to check.
> 
> Hope this helps (a bit...)
> 
> Christ van Willegen
> 

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