Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

[Urs Liska]

Am 25.09.2015 um 09:04 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller
>> <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>>> I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me
>>> some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I
>>> followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html for
>>> installation. I then got through step 3, creating lilypond-book,
>>> convert-ly, etc. However, I'm stuck on chmod u+x lilypond. That
>>> returns an error:
>>>
>>> chmod: lilypond: No such file or directory.
>>
>> Make sure you are in the correct directory, as explained on the
>> website. Type these two commands in the terminal:
>>
>> cd ~/bin
>> ls
>>
>> If you see a file called lilypond, then you can change the permissions:
>>
>> chmod +x lilypond
> 
> And if it already fails at the cd command, you might want to do
> 
> mkdir ~/bin
> 
> first.
> 

Well, if there is no ~/bin then there won't be a lilypond inside.


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Urs Liska
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