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Re: another newbie download problem


From: David Bobroff
Subject: Re: another newbie download problem
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:57:00 +0000
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Pierre Russell Straddler wrote:
preface:  I just got a "top posting" error message, which I've never seen
before.  I apologise for this breech of protocol and etiquette....




Hi there


I tried to download Lilypond from the lilypond site.  When I "do what I am told"
(i.e. "open with text editor) I get this message:

could not open the file /tmp/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh.
gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.  Please check that you
are nopt trying to open a binary file.  Select a character coding from the menu
and try again

(my choices are Current Locale (UTF-8) and Western (ISO-8859-15)

neither of which work.

That said,

lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh
is sitting on my desktop.

I open a terminal window and type

sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh
and I get the error

sh: can't open lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh


?

so I looked around a little bit and found this:





I downloaded the file from website, but when tried to open it got a message:

Could not open the file /home/anne/Desktop/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh.

Yes; apparently gedit is trying to open the .sh files as shell
scripts; however the LilyPond distribution is actually a "shar"
self-extracting archive (same extension, but completely different size
and data in it).

You just have to _execute_ this file:

just open a terminal, and type

cd ~/Desktop
sudo lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh




+ + +


I am not a power PC user, but instead an x86 user with the latest version of
Ubuntu and so I typed:

the cd ~/Desktop
sudo lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh

still didn't work.  I get the error

"Can't open lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh"


Anyone?  Please?

Well one thing I see is that the filename is wrong.  You have:

lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh

and it should be:

lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh

That is, no dot following the '33' in the filename. You may also need to do a chmod to make the file executable.

Hope this helps,

David


Thanking you!

Pierre Russell Straddler




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