I'm a new lilypond would-be user, having just installed the Debian pkg. of lilypond from the 'testing' distribution (lilypond_1.4.12-1_i386.deb) . I'm really running Libranet Linux, which is mostly built on stable Deb., but when I tried to install the lilypond from the stable distribution, I was informed that it was looking for libguile6, when really libguile9 already exists on my system. So I decided to go with the ver. from 'testing.'
Anyway, I installed everything I needed, and the process concluded with apparent success ( no dependency messages, anyway). But when I tried to run 'ly2div -P mynewfile.ly' I got error messages not just about my own syntax, but similar to the following: Analyzing twinkle.tex... Running LaTeX... error: latex: command exited with value 256 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 850, in ? run_latex (files, outbase, extra_init) File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 626, in run_latex system (cmd) File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 234, in system error (msg) File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 132, in error raise _ ("Exiting ... ") Exiting ... I even got this when I ran one of the example files "twinkle.ly" so it isn't just about my bad syntax, I trust. I admit I don't know much about latex or tetex, but when I type 'locate latex' or 'locate tetex' in an xterm, a whole lot of files whizz by, so I think they're installed. If they weren't, I also think I would have gotten dependency error messages at installation. I hope you can help. I'm eager to get cracking on a handbell part for a duet w/organ I'd like to play at Xmas, and if I can learn lilypond and print out the parts in time for someone to practice them, well that would be just cool! Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user