I am running xubuntu 22.04. When I last used Lilypond (November 2023) I was probably running a recent version of Ubuntu Unity. But my /home folder has not changed significantly, and Lilypond 2.24.1, downloaded from lilypond.org, is installed there.
I don't quite understand the question about PATH. The command lilypond is set up to invoke bin/lilypond in my home folder; this is a short script to call my latest version of lilypond in its folder which is a subfolder of my home folder. And clearly it is doing this. What do I get as an error message? I as sorry if I was not clear, but I do not get any error message at all. No error reported, no warnings, no compilation; merely the same output I would get if I simply typed the command 'lilypond'. David On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 20:39 +0100, Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello David, > > it apears your Lilypond installation has some issue. What OS are you > currently > on? How did you install Lilypond? If you are using some Linux > distribution > there might be a version mismatch between the libraries the binaries > have been > compiled against and the ones installed on your system. If so this > should be a > dependency / packaging issue of your distribution. Have you tried > using the > statically linked binaries from lilypond.org? > > Cheers, > Valentin On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 20:42 +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > Hello, > > How have you installed LilyPond? From the official binaries or from a > package from your Linux distribution (I guess, since you mention > Emacs, that you are under Linux)? > Do you know that the last versions of LilyPond do not update your > PATH? So are you invoking lilypond with the path where you extracted > the binaries? > And when you say you can't compile, what do you get as error message? > It is not clear at all. > > Kind regards, > Xavier > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2024, 17:13:03 CET schrieb David Sumbler: > > I haven't used Lilypond for a while, but I have currently got > > v.2.24.1 > > > > I started a new, very small, project today, but I can't compile > > anything. Thinking I must have forgotten even the basics of > > writing > > Lilypond files, I tried a few of my previous project files which I > > have > > successfully compiled in the past. But nothing will compile. > > > > If I use the bash command line, with, for example, 'lilypond -V > > file.ly' I get no compilation, and the output is identical to what > > I > > get if I just enter 'lilypond' with no option and no file. > > > > If I try to compile from Emacs, using Ctrl-C Ctrl-L, I get exactly > > the > > same output as above, with "Compilation exited abnormally with code > > 2 > > at Sun Mar 24 15:54:38" or similar suffixed. > > > > What can possibly be wrong? Lilypond isn't giving me any clues. > > > > David >
