Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

[Cameron Horsburgh]

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