Re: Installing Lilypond 2.23.10

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 13/07/2022 à 19:04, David Sumbler a écrit :
> The last version of Lilypond I installed was 2.23.5.  For that I have 
> a shell script entitled lilypond-2.23.5-1.linux-64.sh , and similar 
> scripts for previous development and stable versions.
>
> Having updated my OS to Ubuntu 22.04 I want to install the latest 
> version.  But now when I click on the link I get the tar.bz2 file 
> direct, and not a shell script which would download and process it for 
> me.  I assume I have to use 'make' etc. to compile things, but I am 
> not very familiar with such matters.



No; you didn't download a source archive but binaries. They are already 
compiled. There is no installation shell script because _no 
installation_ is required.


> I notice that the link for the stable version 2.22.2 still downloads a 
> shell script.
>
> Is this a change of policy to discourage us less geeky users from 
> using the development version, or am I just missing something?  I 
> admit I haven't used Lilypond at all for some months.


The installation instructions in the learning manual are currently being 
updated. The procedure could hardly be simpler: unpack the archives, and 
the binaries are already ready to run!

Regards,
Jean