On Fri 17 Jan 2020 at 08:19:00 (-0700), John Burt wrote: > I downloaded the deb-file for lilypond from > http://partitura.org/index.php/lilypond/. It installed smoothly. But I had > trouble getting it to run because of the required dependency on guile 1.8 (I > have guile 2 something). I followed the instructions on the partitura page > for downloading guile 1.8, but when I update my apt program it tells me that > the apt archive for jessie is no longer available. Is there another way that > you know of to install guile 1.8?
I can see the packages at http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/g/guile-1.8/ which correspond in version number to those that I had installed on a jessie system (mine was i386) still being kept up-to-date as of 2019-03-28. I didn't use apt (obviously) to get to those packages, but just browsed from http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian given on the page you referred to above. So you could just download them by hand and install them with either dpkg -i foo.deb (dependencies first) or with apt and friends apt install ./foo.deb Note that to install .deb *files* with apt, the filename must be a path starting with any of / or ./ or ../ else apt will misinterpret it. > I also downloaded the source for lilypond to see whether I could compile it. > But I'm new at that. Do you have an idea how hard it would be for me to > modify the lilypond sources so that they would work with the guile I have? > Thanks! Watching conversations here, I think very hard, possibly involving Python2→3 as well, though I might be wrong there. I don't think LP would be using guile1 at all were it straightforward. There does appear to be an open thread about compiling LP which involves guile: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-01/msg00319.html and another about compiling libreadline into guile: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-01/msg00198.html which might be of help, but I've not tried any of this as I download amd64 tarballs from the LP website myself. Cheers, David.
