Re: install question

[Federico Bruni]

I suggest installing the lilypond.org package in a different path from that used by the distribution. In the future you might want to use the updated distro package and have two versions installed..
If you install as root user it will be installed in /usr/local:

sudo sh lilypond-version.sh

sh lilypond.sh --help
shows all the options available

Il 16/ago/2014 07:14 "Steven Arntson" <address@hidden> ha scritto:

I've noticed that I don't have the most recent stable version of
Lilypond, and would like to install 2.18.2 to see if some issues I'm
having are resolved. The instructions on lilypond.org suggest installing
with:

sh lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh

When I type this, though, I'm told,

You are about to install LilyPond in /home/steven/lilypond
A script in /home/steven/bin will be created as a shortcut.

These directories don't exist, and I don't really want to create them
just for one program. I'm the sole user of my machine, and I use the
Ubuntu package manager. I think Lilypond is in /usr/bin.

I'm new to installing things outside of Ubuntu's apt-get
function. (Alas, their repositories don't have very new versions of
Lilypond.) Is there a way to install Lilypond that will get rid of the
old version, and put the new one where it should be?

Thank you!
steven


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