Re: unable to launch Lilypond

[Richard Grubb]

I use Mac OSX, but version 10.1.5, not anything newer yet.

I will add to Graham's reply first. To start a new shell in the Terminal 
application, just click on the Shell menu, and select New. You can either 
close the current shell window or not. But only new Shell windows will be 
able to launch Lilypond. I won't go into the reasons why right now.

I do recommend "Mac OS X Unleashed" by John and William Ray. I did not 
like "Mac OS X, The Missing Manual" as well. Nothing really wrong with the 
second book, but the first book had more information, and the second book 
added nothing to the first. I also would recommend "Unix in a Nutshell" by 
Daniel Gilly and the O'Reilly staff, and "Unix System Administration 
Handbook" by Evi Nemeth and others. But "The Missing Manual" should be 
sufficient to get you started.

As Mats said, LiliyPond does not include a graphical interface. If you 
have read the tutorial by now, you will see that the general procedure is 
to prepare a file with LilyPond commands, and then telling LilyPond to 
process that file by typing things like "ly2dvi ..." in your new Shell 
window.

Besides going to the web site at www.lilypond.org, you can type "man 
lilypond" and "info Lilypond" (but you will have to know how to navigate 
within the info program).

You can write directly to me for UNIX questions, but I am not much help in 
solving LilyPond problems.

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Roy Schienmann wrote:

> GNU LilyPond 1.6.6ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> This is the message I receive after I type in   /sw/bin/lilypond   using 
> terminal on OS X (10.2.3). I'm a complete unix newbie using FinkCommander 
> to install unix apps. I've had success installing and launching The Gimp 
> in the previously mentioned manner. When FinkCommander had finished 
> installing Lilypond, I got the following message -
>
> Installation Complete.
> @@@ Start a new shell to get the correct lilypond environment settings.