Re: Install on linux

2016-02-22 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 22-02-16 04:05, David Wright wrote: On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 22:12:51 (+0100), Malte Meyn wrote: Am 21.02.2016 um 22:02 schrieb David Wright: On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... I can't help wondering what the ... s

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Late to the party, but most Linux distros will allow you to add repositories/packages for more-recent versions: on gentoo, you can even use a "live" version that installs from git. This has the occasional consequence of lilypond reporting itself as a version that isn't officially released yet. So i

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 22:12:51 (+0100), Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 21.02.2016 um 22:02 schrieb David Wright: > >On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: > >>Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... > > > >I can't help wondering what the ... stands for. > > > It’s the ins

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2016 um 22:02 schrieb David Wright: On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... I can't help wondering what the ... stands for. It’s the install script, something like lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh ___

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 19:10:29 (+0100), Peter O'Doherty wrote: > Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... I can't help wondering what the ... stands for. > On 21-02-16 13:13, Peter O'Doherty wrote: > >Hi, > > > >When I install lilypond on Ubuntu (following the instructions on > >the web

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks a lot. Sorted now using sudo sh lilypond... On 21-02-16 13:13, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hi, When I install lilypond on Ubuntu (following the instructions on the website i.e. cd PATH-TO-DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY sh lilypond-2.18.2-OS-TYPE.sh ) it installs two folders in my home directory, lilyp

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Peter, When I install LilyPond, I use the --prefix flag and direct it to be installed in folder /usr/ In this way, the bin files will be created in the proper places. The "down side" is that the directories of the .el files and .info files will need to be explicitly stated somewhere in o

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 21.02.2016 13:18, Jean Bréfort wrote: Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond You might end up with a more or less old LilyPond version. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As Jean suggests, use apt-get if you are allowed to, you'll need to be root. If you have to install the package without privilege, then ~/bin seems pretty normal. Many users will have a ~/bin directory with it entered on their $PATH where they c

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2016 um 13:21 schrieb Malte Meyn: You should either install as root (using sudo): cd PATH-TO-DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY sudo sh lilypond-2.18.2-OS-TYPE.sh Advantage: You (and all other users) can start lilypond directly from terminal etc. without changing PATH/make it known to Frescobaldi

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.02.2016 um 13:18 schrieb Jean Bréfort: Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond The installation would be clean. This only works for packaged LilyPond versions ;) Le dimanche 21 février 2016 à 13:13 +0100, Peter O'Doherty a écrit : cd PATH-TO-DOW

Re: Install on linux

2016-02-21 Thread Jean Bréfort
Hi, Why don't you directly use the lilypond package? sudo apt-get install lilypond The installation would be clean. Hope this helps, Jean Le dimanche 21 février 2016 à 13:13 +0100, Peter O'Doherty a écrit : > Hi, > > When I install lilypond on Ubuntu (following the instructions on the  > websi