Re: Using alien to create a .deb

[Mats Bengtsson]

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've been experimenting with the alien package to install Lilypond on my
> Debian unstable box. Being somewhat old fashioned I prefer to install my
> software via dpkg/apt rather than the autopackage route!
>
> I downloaded the RPM from the website, ran alien over it, and installed
> the resulting .deb file. Everything seems to work okay, and I've
> compiled a few scores with no significant issues.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone with any knowledge of the internals of Lilypond deb and
> RPM packages have any idea where alien might introduce any subtle problems?
>
> 2) Can anyone suggest a score somewhere that I could use to 'stress
> test' my installation? There may be some sort of regression test that
> will test that all my dependencies are properly looked after and some of
> the more exotic stuff still works.
>
>  
The only "exotic stuff" that I can think of, which might include external
dependencies is the font selection (try the font-* examples in the
Regressions Test document and maybe the example in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/examples.html with Japanese(?) title).
Also, you may want to try lilypond-book together with LaTeX
(there's an example in Section "3. Example Templates").

  /Mats