Non-intrusive installation of stable 2.8.5

[Donald Axel]

   I had to install some decent recent Lilypond-version and
downloaded lilypond-2.8.5-1.linux.sh

   Looking into the shell-script I found
===
Options
  --prefix PREFIX     install into PREFIX/lilypond/ (default: $prefix)
  --batch             no interaction
  --tarball           extract tar file for archive
  --help              this help
===
and extracted the tar-ball. I would prefer the whole thing in a tree
for itself.

Therefore I extracted the whole ball into /opt/lily and tried with ldd
whether Scientific Linux (SL-43) has the required libs for
ldd /opt/lily/usr/bin/lilypond. (odd path by the way.)

Works nicely.

A small script /usr/local/bin/lilypond starts the /opt/lily binary.
I think the script does something like that.

Making a symlink from /opt/lily/usr/bin/lilypond to
e.g. /usr/local/bin/lilypond  does not work. Apparently lilypond checks
out wherefrom it is run and grabs the libraries accordingly.

I had to change the python-path in convert-ly, probably the installer
would change the Python path to the included python; I can see that most
of the required programs and libraries are included in the tarball.


This way the system is not at all changed by the Lilypond package.
I think that others might want to know. Regards/Donald


-- 
http://d-axel.dk/ -- Donald Axel, Consultant -- address@hidden