Re: install question

[Steven Arntson]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> 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


Thanks for this advice---I installed with sudo, and it put the files at
/usr/local/lilypond, as you said.

I'm moving on to my next roadblock in another usergroup---I'm using
emacs as my editor, and am having trouble getting it to recognize the
new location. I'm getting some help at gmane.emacs.orgmode, and
hopefully will be able to start writing music again soon! :)

best,
steven