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Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning
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Erik Sandberg |
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Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning |
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Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:42:35 +0100 |
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 11.59, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> I used lilypond several years ago, but had a lot of trouble
> upgrading, because then one had to build from scratch and there
> were always guile imcompatibilities, etc. So I did nothing with
> computer music typesetting for quite a while.
>
> I recently did a reinstall of a very ancient Linux system and
> am now running Debian Sarge; and I reinstalled Lilypond from
> the CDs I bought. So I now have Lilypond 2.2.6. Which I guess
> is ancient, but I still was able to set a transcription of
> some Bach for string quartet.
>
> So much for preface. I have three questions:
>
> 1. If I want to upgrade to a Lilypond 2.6.x, will that mean
> I have to get a new guile, and possibly other libs?
I think the autopackage will install whatever you need for you. You can always
experiment, by creating a test user, and install the autopackage locally as
that user. That should be safe.
--
Erik