> > by far the easiest thing you can do is install with autopackage. It works, > > quite > > nicely. You can install it to your home directory. > > > > Unfortunately, there are not yet any 2.6 or 2.7 packages for Debian. > > So, if I understand correctly, at the moment the only way to get 2.6 or > 2.7 for my debian systems would be installing from source, am I right?
No. That is not what I said. You can also install via autopackage. Autopackage is a packaging system that, like apt/dpkg, keeps track of dependencies, and has various front-ends (both GUI and at the command line). You can install or uninstall it as root or as a regular user, alongside your normal, healthy dpkg system. I have had no major problems[1] with autopackage. If you are not interested in installing 2.6 or 2.7 from source, and are not interested in waiting for someone else to create a debian package for you, I strongly advise you to download the autopackage files. For general information on what autopackage is, go to autopackage.org. To save you the link-finding, http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/ explains how exactly to use the .autopackage files. [1] I've had no major problems, but I have had to manually fix problems with my $PATH settings that seem to come from autopackage messing with them when I opted to install autopackage locally rather than as root. There are several ways to avoid this. If you are interested, elaboration is easy. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
