Hi Karlin, thank you -- this is very good reading. It's making my head spin, which means I'm learning something :) I was able to install guile 1.8 via the repository for Debian Jessie. as far as I know I'm not using guile 2.x for anything anyway, so i don't mind having 1.8 installed instead.
Perhaps it is wacky to install from the repository from an earlier version of Debian? Is that unusual? I'm fairly new to Linux though i have some background in programming, and I don't fully understand package management. Thanks again, Peter On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:03 PM Karlin High <karlinh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/11/2018 3:48 PM, Peter Engelbert wrote: > > In the meantime, I also noticed that for some reason Lilypond 2.18.2 is > not > > in the Debian Stretch (9) repository for ARM, but it IS in the Debian > > Jessie (8) repository. So I was able to install 2.18.2 for the raspberry > pi > > by adding the Jessie repository. Is it’s absence in the Stretch > repository > > an oversight, or is there some reason for it? > > LilyPond depends on Guile 1.8; more recent versions are incompatible so > far. Newer Debian versions have removed Guile 1.8. Here are a few > threads from the lilypond-devel list that may be of interest. > > LilyPond in Debian > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-09/msg00042.html> > > compiling lilypond in debian stretch with self-compiled guile-1.8 > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-10/msg00098.html> > -- > Karlin High > Missouri, USA > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
