Re: Lilypond 2.19.31 on openSUSE Leap 42.1

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On 14/11/15 11:52, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Anybody running this combination?
> 
> When attempting to run lilypond, libffi.so.6 is not found:
> 
>     error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open
>     shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I am presently unable to locate libffi.so.6 on this OS, as libffi.so.4
> seems to be the highest version. I do understand that Leap 42.1 is very new.
> 
Bear in mind (1) Leap is based on SLES, and I gather there have been
various moans about software versions going *backwards*,

and (2) that is very similar to the reason I changed my distro-of-choice
from SuSE to gentoo - I was trying to run the latest lilypond on the
latest SuSE, and half the dependencies were out-of-date :-(

So you might well find that libffi 6 has been around a while but Leap
has been a leap in the wrong direction :-(

Cheers,
Wol