Provided is the unpacked source of the lilypond version to be installed. A descripton of the steps to install lilypond one finds in INSTALL.txt. More infos one may find at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor-big-page#compiling.
Every version will be installed in a specific directory, say i. e. in a directory with the version number. Makes sense beccause one remebers and finds it easily. (Any directory name is possible as long as it is not already present in the home directory.) Assumed, that one compiles from the subdirectory build the first step is ../config --prefix=$HOME/2.16.2 (Warning: actually most Linux distributions update to guile 2.0.5 - does not work! Best use a gule version 1.8) Provied there are no error messages the follow up steps are make and sudo make install now there is a complete evrsion of lilipond in the directory: ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls ./2.16.2 bin lib share ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls ./2.16.2/bin abc2ly etf2ly lilypond lilypond-invoke-editor midi2ly convert-ly lilymidi lilypond-book lilysong musicxml2ly ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls ./2.16.2/lib lilypond ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls ./2.16.2/lshare ls: cannot access ./2.16.2/lshare: No such file or directory ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls ./2.16.2/share emacs info lilypond locale man ich@ich-desktop:~$ To use this particular version one needs a simple shell script: #!/bin/bash exec "$HOME/2.16.2/bin/lilypond" "$@" Here is assumed that one want to compile with the version 2.16.2. Save this shell script to $HOME/bin, say as LP-2.16.2 (or any other), so you can call that spcefic version from any direcctory ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls -l $HOME/bin/LP* -rw-r--r-- 1 ich ich 58 Jul 23 14:17 /home/bb/bin/LP-2.16.2 Don't forget to make the file executable: ich@ich-desktop:~$ chmod u+x $HOME/bin/LP* ich@ich-desktop:~$ ls -l $HOME/bin/LP* -rwxr--r-- 1 ich ich 58 Jul 23 14:17 ich@ich-desktop:~$ Done! If one hass installed that stable version 2.16.2 in the described way you may install the maybe newest unbstable version beside in the "norml" way without interference. If you like to compile a lilypond file with the stable version do it this way: LP-12-16-2 mylilypondfile.ly with other version: lilypond mylilypondfile.ly Regards _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
