Thursday, January 9, 2020, 11:08:57 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi Peter > Il giorno gio 9 gen 2020 alle 10:18, Peter Toye > <lilyp...@ptoye.com> ha > scritto: >> Dear Federico, >> Thomas Morley forwarded you an email from >> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/A-suggestion-add-rf-to-built-in-dynamics-td226659.html >> One issue in it was that my Linux distro (antiX) does not have >> systemd, and it appears from the documentation that LilyDev needs it. >> I am a Linux newbie, and don't fully understand the container system. >> Apparently you are the expert on this. > Only the container (Lilydev-1-debian.tar.xz file) needs systemd. > The virtual machine (LilyDev-1-debian-vm.zip > file) can be installed in > VirtualBox or GNOME Boxes (or any libvirt frontend). > Another option, if you want to keep your > lilypond dev environment > separated from your system, is Debootstrap: > https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap > but then you must set up the system following the CG: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-compiling-lilypond#ubuntu > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-building-documentation > and build guile-1.8 using these commands: > https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/blob/master/mkosi/debian/mkosi.postinst#L42 > (copy lines 23-35 of that file to ~/.bashrc > before compiling guile-1.8) >> Is there any chance you could find time to let me know whether the >> container version of LilyDev will run under any of the >> easily-available container managers (Docker, LXC...)? If it wn't, I >> suppose that I will have to try to find a Linux version that will >> run on my rather ancient laptop. > Yes, if you can install Docker, you can use the Dockerfile contributed > by Dan Eble: > https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/tree/master/docker > It would be very useful to upload that Docker > image to Docker Hub but I > haven't found the time to do it yet (especially because I'm using > Fedora, which switched to Podman as alternative to Docker.. and Podman > doesn't have yet the Docker-compose feature..). Thanks very much for this. It seems I have quite a few choices. I'll have to go away and have a big think. Best wishes, Peter
