Perhaps someone could give me some pointers. I have not successfully installed LilyPond as of yet. I tried with the command-line: rpm -i lilypond-2.4.1-1.rh90.ccrma
Althought the package name contains "rh90", it is the one recommended for RH8 on the LilyPond website. This is the chain of dependency errors I get as I try to install the successive packages that are required: guile >= 1.6.4-8 is needed by lilypond-2.4.1-1.rh90.ccrma libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by guile-1.6.4-8 glibc-common = 2.3.2-98 is needed by glibc-2.3.2-98 glibc < 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-101 I can't uninstall glibc because it is required by too many packages. I can't upgrade glibc because I don't have the right version of glibc-common and I can't upgrade glibc-common because I don't have the right version of glibc. So I tried to install from source. First I installed guile from source (guile-1.6.7.tar.gz). Then I installed flex from source (flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz). Then I unpacked lilypond-2.4.4.tar.gz When I ./configure from ./lilypond-2.4.4 I get the following error: ERROR: Please install required programs: echo no guile-config >= 1.6 (installed: ) libguile (libguile-dev, guile-devel or guile-dev package). I then tried to find libguile-dev. The LilyPond website installation instructions say this might be needed but does not supply a link. I searched for it but I have only found it in .deb package format. I don't know how to install a .deb package on RedHat. Next I obtained and unpacked guile-devel. It directly installed files in usr/include/libguile/ so I assume that no make install is needed. I tried ./configure from ./lilypond-2.4.4 again but got the same error: ERROR: Please install required programs: echo no guile-config >= 1.6 (installed: ) libguile (libguile-dev, guile-devel or guile-dev package). Next I searched for guile-dev but could not find it. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html only seems to have guile. I found lots of discussions about guile-dev but no download. Am I missing something here? I don't like to ask for help until I have exhausted all possible routes but I am definately out of my depth now. Can anyone help? Thanks a bunch, Peter _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user