Uninstalling and reinstalling in linux [was: Re: Consistent gs problem PS->PDF 2.13.24]

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Wed 16 Jun 2010, 08:46 Nick Payne wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed 2.13.24 - linux 64-bit running on
> Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. After installing it, every file I try to build
All the same, but could not catch this problem.

> Converting to `./bwv1007_prelude.pdf'...
> `gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE
> -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile="./bwv1007_prelude.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f
> "bwv1007_prelude.ps"' failed (256)
> error: failed files: "/home/nick/lilypond/Bach/BWV1007/bwv1007_prelude.ly"
> 
> If I uninstall 2.13.24 and reinstall 2.13.23 the files all build
> without error. Uninstall 2.13.23 and reinstall 2.13.24 and the error
> returns.
BTW, you need not to uninstall and reinstall to try different versions.

What i'm using:

 - before installing new version of lilypond i remove ~/lilypond, which is a
   symlink actually,
 - after installing a new version i move it to ~/lilyponds/lilypond-<version>
   and make a symlink lilypond -> ~/lilyponds/lilypond-<version>

Everything works nice. To switch to other version i need to edit a symlink.

> Nick

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  Dmytro O. Redchuk