preface: I just got a "top posting" error message, which I've never seen before. I apologise for this breech of protocol and etiquette....
Hi there I tried to download Lilypond from the lilypond site. When I "do what I am told" (i.e. "open with text editor) I get this message: could not open the file /tmp/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh. gedit has not been able to detect the character coding. Please check that you are nopt trying to open a binary file. Select a character coding from the menu and try again (my choices are Current Locale (UTF-8) and Western (ISO-8859-15) neither of which work. That said, lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh is sitting on my desktop. I open a terminal window and type sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh and I get the error sh: can't open lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh ? so I looked around a little bit and found this: I downloaded the file from website, but when tried to open it got a message: Could not open the file /home/anne/Desktop/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh. Yes; apparently gedit is trying to open the .sh files as shell scripts; however the LilyPond distribution is actually a "shar" self-extracting archive (same extension, but completely different size and data in it). You just have to _execute_ this file: just open a terminal, and type cd ~/Desktop sudo lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh + + + I am not a power PC user, but instead an x86 user with the latest version of Ubuntu and so I typed: the cd ~/Desktop sudo lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh still didn't work. I get the error "Can't open lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh" Anyone? Please? Thanking you! Pierre Russell Straddler _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
