Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu

[Urs Liska]

Am 03.03.2016 um 21:36 schrieb David Wright:
> On Thu 03 Mar 2016 at 12:41:28 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote:
>
>> The LilyPond installation is really trouble-less, and I have the feeling
>> that all the confusion came up because someone mixed LilyPond and
>> Frescobaldi.
>>
>> If you don't want to install LilyPond using apt-get (for example because
>> you are recommended to use a newer version) you can simply download the
>> installation script and run it using "sh path/to/downloaded/script.sh".
>> This will install LilyPond locally in your user account. There are no
>> further dependencies or the need of administrator rights.
>> The only thing that *may* be needed is to add the ~/bin directory to
>> your $PATH.
> Most people will have ~/bin in their $PATH, as you know. 

But there *are* distributions that don't have ~/bin at all by default.
Don't recall where I encountered that, but it happens.

> For those that
> don't (and who are unlikely to have edited their PATH before, I think
> it might be sensible to show an example of what it will look like,
> emphasising that : is a separator, not a terminator or delimiter. I've
> known people add a security vulnerability to their system by getting
> this wrong. (It puts any directory into your $PATH while you're in it.)

Just out of curiosity: could you give a more concrete hint (without
exposing anybody to copy-and-paste-risk)?

Urs

>
> Example of an example:
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/david/bin
> $
>
> Cheers,
> David.