Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu

[Jonathan Kulp]

Lilypond was one of the first things I installed when I did 
a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade.  It worked fine immediately for 
me, and I think all I did was run the script (not as 
sudo--probably should have) by double-clicking the script's 
icon and choosing "run" when asked what it wanted me to do 
with the file.  I've had no problems with it.  I've also 
installed Lilypond using Add/Remove programs or synaptic, 
but the Ubuntu repository has a pretty old version so it's 
probably best to download and install yourself.

Jon

Joseph Haig wrote:
> How exactly did you extract Lilypond?
>
> If you have downloaded the shell script
> (lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh) and run it as root, it should now be
> installed in /usr/local/.  It is possible that /usr/local/bin is not
> in your path.  What happens when you try:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/lilypond
>
> I am using Lilypond on Ubuntu and I have never had problems running it.
>
> 2008/5/13 Peter Gifford <address@hidden>:
> > I am struggling to get Lilypond even running in the latest Ubuntu.  It seems to
> >  have downloaded and extracted in a Lilypond folder but I cannot find a way to
> >  run it - even in terminal by typing Lilypond.
> >
> >  Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.  I have used this some
> >  months ago on a colleagues pc and it looked superb, exactly what I need for
> >  scoring music written for our church.
> >
> >  Thanks in anticipation......  Peter Gifford, Radlett, UK
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