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

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If you are on Linux type
find lilypond in a trminal window to check if and where lilypond is on 
your machine.


To refine your search check
find -help
for options, in short:
find {dir-name} -name {file-name} action

On 25.09.2015 09:18, Urs Liska wrote:
> 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.