I suggest installing the lilypond.org package in a different path from that used by the distribution. In the future you might want to use the updated distro package and have two versions installed.. If you install as root user it will be installed in /usr/local:
sudo sh lilypond-version.sh sh lilypond.sh --help shows all the options available Il 16/ago/2014 07:14 "Steven Arntson" <ste...@stevenarntson.com> ha scritto: > I've noticed that I don't have the most recent stable version of > Lilypond, and would like to install 2.18.2 to see if some issues I'm > having are resolved. The instructions on lilypond.org suggest installing > with: > > sh lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh > > When I type this, though, I'm told, > > You are about to install LilyPond in /home/steven/lilypond > A script in /home/steven/bin will be created as a shortcut. > > These directories don't exist, and I don't really want to create them > just for one program. I'm the sole user of my machine, and I use the > Ubuntu package manager. I think Lilypond is in /usr/bin. > > I'm new to installing things outside of Ubuntu's apt-get > function. (Alas, their repositories don't have very new versions of > Lilypond.) Is there a way to install Lilypond that will get rid of the > old version, and put the new one where it should be? > > Thank you! > steven > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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