Re: Installing Lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:12:12 -0800 (PST), monk Innocent
> Lewis wrote:
>
> > Starting from the beginning: I went to the Download
> > page for LilyPond 2.0 for Windows. (I am using XP and
> > am logged on as the administrator.) I did a
> > "shift-click" on the set-up file and then was able to
> > install Cygwin. But I never came across a "select"
> > page that resembles the one on your page which listed
> > LilyPond. What did I do wrong?
>
>
> The "Select Packages" dialog is just after the "Choose A
> Download Site" dialog.  Make sure you select
> Publishing:lilypond as well as XFree86:XFree86-prog.  I
> couldn't get lilypond to execute until I reran setup and
> manually selected the XFree86-prog package.  This package
> contains some libraries and headers that are required to get
> lilypond working.  Actually, they may only be needed for the
> downstream tools (dvips or something).
>
> Does the Lilypond development team maintain the Cygwin
> package?  If so, please consider adding the XFree86-prog as
> a dependency of Lilypond.

I have run lilypond in cygwin without XFree86, so it should
definitely not be necessary. The only case where you need it
is if you want to use xdvi to view the .dvi files of the score
instead of viewing the .ps or .pdf files.

However, I have noticed that setup.exe occasionally fails to
install all packages correctly and you have to rerun setup.exe
once more to have them installed. This might be what happened
to you.

   /Mats