Re: converting old to new version not working right

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Monday, February 09, 2015 01:09:59 PM you wrote:
> One possible explanation is that you have more than one version
> of convert-ly on your system, perhaps from having installed the
> software using different methods.  If the older one is in a path
> that gets searched before the new binary's location, then your
> shell will find and run the old one.
> 
> $ find / -name convert-ly
> 
> should confirm or refute that theory.
> 
> If it's not that, another possibility is that perhaps your
> package management tools or procedures have led you astray
> somehow.  Download a new package, and check its contents before
> you re-install it.  Afterward see whether the convert-ly binary
> that got installed is the same as the one inside the package
> archive.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:47:31PM -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
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> > I am trying to build Messiah I downloaded from a WEB -site. There is no
> > version in the lily files, but the WEB site and also the pdf from the same
> > web- site says, it's 2.13.8
> > but when I convert this file with the command
> > convert-ly -edc --from=2.13.8 part-vocal-keyboard.ly
> > 
> > it adds on top of the file \version "2.16.0"
> > 
> > I have version 2.18.2 installed.
> > 
> > why is it only updating to version 2.16.0?
> > 
> > FYI
> > $ rpm -qa |grep lilypond
> > lilypond-2.18.2-1.mga
> > 
> > - --
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> > 
> > Thomas Spuhler
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$ locate convert-ly
/usr/bin/convert-ly
/usr/share/doc/lilypond-doc/share/man/man1/convert-ly.1
/usr/share/man/man1/convert-ly.1.xz


Looking into the file /usr/bin/convert-ly shows, it's 2.18.2

BTW, the package was installed using the distro provided rpm (of which I am 
the packager)

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Thomas Spuhler

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