How exactly did you extract Lilypond? If you have downloaded the shell script (lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh) and run it as root, it should now be installed in /usr/local/. It is possible that /usr/local/bin is not in your path. What happens when you try:
$ /usr/local/bin/lilypond I am using Lilypond on Ubuntu and I have never had problems running it. 2008/5/13 Peter Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am struggling to get Lilypond even running in the latest Ubuntu. It seems > to > have downloaded and extracted in a Lilypond folder but I cannot find a way to > run it - even in terminal by typing Lilypond. > > Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated. I have used this > some > months ago on a colleagues pc and it looked superb, exactly what I need for > scoring music written for our church. > > Thanks in anticipation...... Peter Gifford, Radlett, UK > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user