Re: Installation Problems

[Mats Bengtsson]

I know you have tried to rerun setup.exe a few times already, but
please try to to it once more and make sure that the package called
libkpathsea3 is selected for installation (this should happen
automatically as soon as you install lilypond, but the installation
program is known to fail from time to time).

   /Mats

Quoting Thomas Kroedel <address@hidden>:

> Dear Christ,
>
> Thank you very much for your advice. I'm sorry to keep
> troubling you with this, but unfortunately I still
> haven't made progress.
>
> When I follow your instructions, the following
> happens. First of all, the first line in the Cygwin
> window (prior to me having entered any commands) reads
> "bash: kpsexpand: command not found". When I enter
> "which kpsexpand" I also get the response "bash:
> kpsexpand: command not found". On entering "lilypond
> -v", there is no response in the Cygwin window, but I
> get a Windows alert telling me that lilypond.exe can't
> be started because the component cygkpathsea-3.dll
> can't be found.
>
> I checked that test.ly is of the right type, rather
> than being test.txt.ly: if I right-click and choose
> 'Properties', the name is specied as "test", and the
> file type as "LilyPond source".
>
> Is there anything else I could do?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Christ van Willegen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello Thomas,
> >
> > please try to keep all discussions on the list...
> >
> > If you reply, use the 'reply to all' command in your
> > mail program.
> >
> > > Dear Christ,
> > >
> > > Many thanks for your message. Alas, repeated
> > > installations and downloads couldn't solve the
> > > problem.
> > So, it seems that Cygwin did correctly install all
> > files, after all,
> > and the problem may lie somewhere else.
> >
> > > Do I perhaps need to install some auxillary
> > software?
> > Cygwin should (als probably has) install all
> > software needed to run Lilypond.
> >
> > > There are some remarks on
> > >
> > > http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/INSTALL ,
> > >
> > > but they are almost incomprehensible to a
> > > narrow-minded Windows user like me. ;)
> > These remarks are targeted at Linux machines, so you
> > can rest assured
> > that it wasn't necessary for you to comprehend :-)
> >
> > > Best wishes,
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > > P.S. Do I have to join some mailing list to be
> > > officially eligible for your kind support?
> >
> > You've sent you initial e-mail to
> > address@hidden, which is the
> > main mailing list used by Lilypond users to discuss
> > Lilypond features,
> > and installation problems. So, you don't need to
> > subscribe (but I
> > recommend that you do!) to receive help.
> >
> > Ok, now for some more problem-solving tips...
> >
> > Cygwin should install an icon on your desktop, that
> > looks like the
> > icon you can find on http://www.cygwin.com/ (the
> > main Cygwin site). If
> > you click it, a 'DOS window' should appear. Instead
> > of C:> (or D:>),
> > you should see a $ sign.
> >
> > Try typing these commands:
> >
> > which kpsexpand
> >
> > and
> >
> > lilypond -v
> >
> > Also, please make sure that the file test.ly is
> > called that, and not
> > (accidentally) test.ly.txt. Although, by the looks
> > of the error
> > message you received, the file is called just that
> > (because Lilypond
> > _was_ invoked), it is never wrong to check.
> >
> > Hope this helps (a bit...)
> >
> > Christ van Willegen
> >
>
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