Le 13/07/2022 à 19:04, David Sumbler a écrit :
The last version of Lilypond I installed was 2.23.5. For that I have
a shell script entitled lilypond-2.23.5-1.linux-64.sh , and similar
scripts for previous development and stable versions.
Having updated my OS to Ubuntu 22.04 I want to install the latest
version. But now when I click on the link I get the tar.bz2 file
direct, and not a shell script which would download and process it for
me. I assume I have to use 'make' etc. to compile things, but I am
not very familiar with such matters.
No; you didn't download a source archive but binaries. They are already
compiled. There is no installation shell script because _no
installation_ is required.
I notice that the link for the stable version 2.22.2 still downloads a
shell script.
Is this a change of policy to discourage us less geeky users from
using the development version, or am I just missing something? I
admit I haven't used Lilypond at all for some months.
The installation instructions in the learning manual are currently being
updated. The procedure could hardly be simpler: unpack the archives, and
the binaries are already ready to run!
Regards,
Jean
