Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

[Luise Marion Frenkel]

Hello,

Lilypond now works very well, both 2.8.1 and 2.4.1, since I had not to 
delete any lilypond-snapshot to install the 2.8.1. I just had to 
uninstall once more and install again as Cameron Horsburgh suggested. 
Below are just some answers to Pedro Kröger.

Thank you all so much.

Luise

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> Ah. Try running the installation again. The files you removed were
> probably links to the new executables. Try running 
'uninstall-lilypond'
> and then run the installer again. Everything should work properly.
>
> I don't understand why root could run these but an ordinary user 
can't.
> What's the output of this command (run as both root and ordinary 
user):
>
> echo $PATH
>
> Cam
>


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Pedro Kröger wrote:

> 
> > convert-ly : works only in a root shell, where it is version 2.8.1 and 
> > works as expected. In a user shell it gives:
> > address@hidden:~$ convert-ly --version
> > bash: /usr/bin/convert-ly: No such file or directory
> >
> > lilypond-book : works in root shell and user shell, version 2.8.1
> >
> > lilypond: works in user shell but not in root shell, where it gives the 
> > same error as with convert-ly
> 
> did you install lilypond 2.8 as root or regular user? From your other
> posts I suppose you have cleaned up your system a bit, but it seems to
> be still a little "dirty". I advise you to remove all instances of
> lilypond you can find, examples:
> 
> rm -rf /usr/local/share/lilypond/
> rm -rf /usr/bin/lilypond*
> rm -rf /usr/bin/convert-ly*
> rm -rf /usr/local/bin/lilypond*
> rm -rf /usr/local/bin/convert-ly*
> rm -rf /usr/local/lib/lilypond/
> 
> then, close the shell you're using, open a new one and try to run
> lilypond, convert-ly, and lilypond-book. all of them should return
> something like:
> 
> -/bin/bash: lilypond: command not found
> 
> also, check to see if you have lilypond installed in your home dir.
> check for ~/bin/lilypond* 
> 
> *then*, re-install lilypond 2.8 as root.
> 

I did not remove them since, but I certified myself of what was in each:

/usr/local/share/lilypond/      :nothing
/usr/bin/lilypond*              :only snapshot
/usr/bin/convert-ly*            :only snapshot
/usr/local/bin/lilypond*        :only 2.8.1
/usr/local/bin/convert-ly*      :only 2.8.1
/usr/local/lib/lilypond/        :nothing


> BTW, kurumin is not a strong system for a home user. it's ok to run from
> a CD as a demo, but a nightmare to maintain. If you are looking for a
> debian-based distribution, I recomend ubuntu. It has great hardware
> support, it's easy to install, and works in portuguese as well.

It is my fathers computer and he is happy he can read e-mails with it. 
Kurumin was not my choice, but of some friends of his who thought 
it was a nice simple idea. I think this Kurumin release which mixed 
stable and unstable Debian is particularly hard to mantain, and I am 
just waiting an occasion to tell my father that it is no longer possible 
to kep it. Too bad reading e-mails requires so little! The "works in 
portuguese" is surely the least thing I will be looking for in the next 
one, for I dislike the language confusion on menu and shortcuts.

Greetings,

Luise.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pedro
>