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Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases
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Cameron Horsburgh |
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Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases |
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Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:07:22 +1000 |
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Luise Marion Frenkel wrote:
>
> Thank you so much! Now it works, very well!
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>
>
>> How have you installed LilyPond in the past? With apt-get or some other way?
>
> Yes, with apt-get, usually from packages made by some Lilypond
> contributors.
>
>> If you've used apt-get (or some other package manager), that would be
>> the best way to remove it now. I presume that's not possible, so you
>> might have to do something a little more drastic. (If you accidentally
>> remove lilypond-snapshot are you able to reinstall it?)
>
> apt-get did not work, I suppose because 2.4.0 never installed
> completely. I have been trying to do drastic things which made things
> worse. No, lilypond-snapshots are no longer available, they stopped
> shortly after 2.4.2 because of Debian packaging problems of Lilypond,
> and as far as I understood from one e-mail of Laura Conrad, it is no
> longer possible to install 2.4 in Debian because of old libs.
>
>> Try 'which -a lilypond'. That will show you the location of every
>> LilyPond executable in your $PATH. Getting rid of those--or modifying
>> your $PATH--may be your best option.
>
> Thanks. It helped a lot. As you can see I am a very inexperient user of
> Linux, although I am happy to have come that far without any advisors.
> It would be easier if I had not to be careful not to break anything
> with the system the whole family uses.
>
> I got rid of the two files
>
> address@hidden:~# which -a lilypond
> /usr/bin/lilypond
> /usr/local/bin/lilypond
>
> and installing again was enough.
>
> I just don't know why in a root shell I get
>
> address@hidden:~# lilypond -v
> bash: /usr/bin/lilypond: No such file or directory
>
> but it does not matter.
>
>> Do you access LilyPond from the command line or via emacs?
>
> Now again via emacs. It was horrible these last months, to have to use
> command line and have all files being dumped into home, having to move
> them back to their directories.
>
> I am thrilled to be able to use 2.8 now.
>
> Thank you so very much.
>
> Luise.
>
>
Hmm, it seems your system needs a bit of a clean! I'm glad to see it's
working though.
If you were having trouble with the lilypond executable, you may also
run into the same trouble with the other scripts, such as convert-ly and
lilypond-book. Try, for example, 'convert-ly --version' and 'which -a
convert-ly' and see what happens. If you need any advice, please ask!
Cameron