Re: Installing Lilypond for Slackware 10

[Michiel Lange]

Thanks for making the package!

There's one thing I was wondering though. Is it due to a compile 
parameter that my midifiles no longer have the lyrics in them?
Or has something changed in the syntax that I have not been able to find 
yet?

Michiel

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am happy to see that Lilypond is working fine on your system.
>
> Anand
>
> On 01/24/2005 04:22:12 AM, Michiel Lange wrote:
>
> > Yes, it installs fine now!
> >
> > Yet curious why it wouldn't work using the directions for compiling  
> > the things...
> > Thanks anyway... oh, and isn't it an idea to let the packages be  
> > provided from the Lilypond download site too?
> >
> > Michiel
> >
> > R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Install lilypond and ec_fonts_mftraced packages which are available  
> > > at  http://www.linuxpackages.net. They have been created by me and  
> > > they are  working fine on Slackware 10 for me.
> > >
> > > Anand
> > >
> > > On 01/23/2005 05:22:05 PM, Michiel Lange wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everybody,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to install Lilypond 2.4 for Slackware 10 and found a   
> > > > package for it on the net.
> > > > it states that I should install ec-mftraced-fonts package, so I   
> > > > downloaded it and tried to install ec-mftraced-fonts-1.0.9
> > > > first from source, but installing that one resulted in alot of   
> > > > errors. Then I downloaded the rpm and ran rpm2tgz, checked the   
> > > > contents and installed it.
> > > >
> > > > Now I can compile a ly file and it generates a dvi and a midi 
> > > > file,   but with the ps and pdf I get the following errors:
> > > >
> > > > partial output from lilypond jesusjoy.ly (the Bach song, from the   
> > > > Mutopia project, converted to 2.4):
> > > >
> > > > MIDI output to `jesusjoy.midi'...
> > > > Track...
> > > > Layout output to `jesusjoy.tex'...
> > > > Converting to `jesusjoy.dvi'...
> > > > Converting to `jesusjoy.ps'...
> > > > Error invoking `dvips  -t "a4"   -u+ec-mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map  
> > > > - Ppdf jesusjoy > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
> > > > Converting to `jesusjoy.pdf'...Error invoking `ps2pdf  -  
> > > > sPAPERSIZE="a4" jesusjoy.ps > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
> > > >
> > > > lilypond --version gives: GNU LilyPond 2.4.2
> > > > gcc --version gives: gcc (GCC) 3.3.4
> > > > dvips --version gives: dvips(k) 5.92b and kpathsea version 3.4.5
> > > > ps2pdf is probably version 7.0.7
> > > >
> > > > My question is twofold:
> > > > - has anyone succesfully installed and used lilypond 2.4 under   
> > > > Slackware 10? And which steps were taken to make it so?
> > > > - Anyone any idea what is going wrong exactly?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Michiel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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