On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:31:19 (-0400), Paul wrote: > > But I've now got it working. I noticed that I now have a ~/bin > directory with "lilypond" and other shell scripts in it. And > everything works fine when I do: > > $ ~/bin/lilypond test.ly > > or just > > $ lilypond test.ly
Those are the intended methods. > I can still access the 2.18.2 version via Frescobaldi by adding this path: > /usr/bin/lilypond That means ~/bin comes before the system directories in your $PATH which is fine, as is the opposite. I define aliases lily and lilyo to point to the respective versions; saves keystrokes! > I wonder, is this the usual way/location to install a dev version > alongside a stable version on GNU/Linux? Might be nice to have this > documented somewhere. (Or maybe I'm just a newbie with this.) Pretty much. If you list ~/bin/lilypond, you'll see something like #!/bin/sh me=`basename $0` export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/david/lilypond/usr/lib" exec "/home/david/lilypond/usr/bin/$me" "$@" When you ran lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond, the whole of the /home/david/lilypond/usr/lib tree was ignored and it tried to use your system versions instead. (Using PDFs is fine.) Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
