On Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 07:10:42 (-0700), Sami Amiris wrote: > On Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 13:02:07 (+0100), Francisco Vila wrote: > > El 16/3/20 a las 18:39, Sami Amiris escribió: > > > I installed all packages as well. To my dismay, it did not > > > print at all. > > > > Here you should tell exactly which stage of the whole printing process > > you reached. "Printing" is sometimes used in the manuals for > > "rendering" but there are intermediate PS files which could be correct > > even if latest Ghostscript command fails. > > > When using the lyp-installed lilypond 2.20, it fails to produce a pdf, > producing this message instead: > > " > ... > Converting to `experiment.pdf'... > warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 > -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH > -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=false > -sOutputFile=experiment.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -f/tmp/lilypond-rX8aP4)' failed > (139) > > fatal error: failed files: "/tmp/lyp/wrappers/experiment.ly" > "
So did the PostScript file look OK? (In this case, it's the file /tmp/lilypond-rX8aP4, but you might have to repeat the run if /tmp has since been cleaned.) There are various PostScript viewers about, such as atril, evince, okular and zathura/zathura-ps as well as ghostscript/gv itself. Cheers, David.
