Re: Help for ly2dvi

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Hello,
>       I think I'll have many problems to ask for a solutions. Before all, I'm
> using Linux Mandrake, and when I digit
> 
> ly2dvi sinfonia.ly
> 
> (sinfonia.ly is a file in ...../lilypond-1.2.17/mutopia/L.Mozart/)
> 
> I obtain as answer
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/ly2dvi", line 28, in ?
>     import time
> ImportError: No module named time 
> 
> Do I lack something ? What have i to do ? Thanks in advance,
> 
>                                               Alberto Zanoni

Please check with the Lilypond INSTALL file that you have the
correct versions of all the necessary programs. For this 
specific problem, you should check your installation of Python.

Since the Lilypond version you are trying is so old (1.2.17),
it may even happen that your system is too new, but the opposite
problem is more common. Anyway, you might consider to install
the most recent development version of Lilypond (1.3.122) since
many things have improved since 1.2.17. Note that some of the
1.3.x versions have had (and will have) stability problems, but
for the latest versions, the number of bugs has been small.
You can find RPM:s at the www.lilypond.org if you don't want
to build it yourself.

      /Mats