Re: difficulties running LilyPond

[Mats Bengtsson]

> ...

> So I made the download, installed everything properly and tried
> to set up my first typeset-music by following your instructions
> given under the title "Running LilyPond". And just here are lurking
> the problems: After having typed your example score in Window's
> Notepad and opening the "GNU Lilypond"-Window it says: 
> 
> "address@hidden ~$_"
> 
> And after typing the instruction "ly2dvi -P test.ly"
> I see the message
> 
> "Bash: /usr/lilypond-1.4.5/wrappers/ly2dvi: bad interpreter: No such file
> or directory"
> and nothing else happens.
> 
> I looked for the file "ly2dvi" and it happens to be in the right directory.
> So I need your help very badly!!!!!

I've never seen this error message before, so this is a wild guess.
What happens if you give the command
ls -l /bin/sh*

It should answer something like
-rwxr-xr-x  1 NNNN  root   473600 May  8 19:24 /bin/bash.exe*

if it doesn't something went wrong during the installation, 
I hope you installed all the components in the list offered
by install.exe.

I'm sure you've seen the tips and tricks at
http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows

If you still have problems, write back and we'll try to 
do some more debugging at a distance. Don't forget to
specify which Windows version you use.

  /Mats