Re: newbie:poor quality output

[debian]

Quoting may be screwed up:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:26:36PM +0100, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > Starting at version 2.6, lilypond handles fonts etc. in a completely 
> > different 
> > way (without using TeX), so the smoothest fix could be to install version 
> > 2.6.
> 
> On the debian web site, their search for packages facility is down at the 
> moment !
> 
> >From their ftp site I was able to pull down a deb but:
> 
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> # dpkg -i lilypond_2.6.3-9_i386.deb 
> tar: Read 9728 bytes from -
> (Reading database ... 144082 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace lilypond 2.2.6-3 (using lilypond_2.6.3-9_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement lilypond ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lilypond:
>  lilypond depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1); however:
>   Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22.
>  lilypond depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0); however:
>   Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.6.4-1.
>  lilypond depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.2); however:
>   Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.8.1-1.
>  lilypond depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2); however:
>   Version of libstdc++6 on system is 3.4.3-13.
>  lilypond depends on lilypond-data (= 2.6.3-9); however:
>   Version of lilypond-data on system is 2.2.6-3.
> dpkg: error processing lilypond (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  lilypond
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> 
> When I try 
> 
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>  apt-get install libc6
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> libc6 is already the newest version.
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> 
> When I pull down the source and run ./configure, I get: 
> 
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> WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs:  /usr/local/bin/gs >= 
> 8.14 (installed: 7.05.6)
> 
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  libguile (libguile-dev, guile-devel 
> or guile-dev package). mftrace fontforge libpango1.0-dev or pango?-devel >= 
> 1.6.0 (installed: )
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> 
> When I try to install libguile-dev, I get still more dependencies and so on.
> 
> When I hit the install button from the "any 386" on the lilypond.org site, 
> the hour glass appears and the my machine seems to go off into noddy land :-)
> 
> Perhaps I'd be better waiting until the debian site is back running properly.

thanks

Joe