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Re: Fwd: Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu


From: Blöchl Bernhard
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 08:34:33 +0100
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I did NOT have any problems finding postings of the thread! But you found fault with referencing the postings.


Am 03.03.2016 20:57, schrieb David Wright:
On Thu 03 Mar 2016 at 18:20:48 (+0100), BB wrote:
 Ciatate of your post from 03.03.2016 09:03

 "...I have no idea which posting you mean by "last posting". "Last"
 is particularly ambiguous in English; we do not even have the
 distinction in meaning made AIUI by the position of "dernier"
 in French. ..."

 Here is the post I referred to:


 On Sun 28 Feb 2016 at 08:29:52 (+0100), Bernard wrote:

 Hi Noeck,

 Second reply, I was not reading to careful.

OK. I don't know why you couldn't thread your corrected posting to the
correct message, or include a reference to it if you had deleted the
thread already.

I'm not going to attempt to reconstruct all the text below into some
sort of timeline, nor look at it in any kind of graphical HTML viewer.
To me, it's opaque. I have no idea if any of it is original to this
thread, or whether it's all quoted from previous postings. It's
there for others to pick over should they wish to.

Cheers,
David.


 [1]http://lilypond.org/unix.html before? There is a small "Install"
 section. What was missing for you?

 Yes I saw that, but it was missing install from shell. I really
 prefer using apt-get because I have bad experience  with download
 and install because of the depencies hell.
 So the message should be "do not us use apt-get because you will
 retrieve probably version 2.16.2"
 But even better, use a apt-get ppa repository, this you keep u to
 date your self, without being dependant of Debian.

 I'm not sure what Debian has to do with all this. I thought you were
 using ubuntu (in the subject line).

 The current (jessie/stable) version of LilyPond (LP) is 2.18.2.
 The current (jessie/stable) version of Frescobaldi (F) is 2.0.13.

 AIUI there is no LP version dependency of Debian's F 2.0.13:
Depends: python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), lilypond, python-poppler-qt4, python-qt4, python-pypm, tango-icon-theme

 I have tried out Debian's F with lilypond.org's LP 2.19.36 with no
 problems AFAICT.


 Like : [2]https://launchpad.net/~frescobaldi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa (but
 the status is unknown, and out of date)

 This info is inconsistent with the Frescobaldi info, and my
 assumption was Frescobaldi was correct. Which was wrong.

 - Should it mention the --prefix option?

 It would help, for me that was not crucial.

 - Should it mention that you can have several versions installed in
   parallel?

 Yes it sure does. Because I had version 2.16.2 was installed and
 Frescobaldi urge to uninstall previous version of python-ly because
 it can cause inconsistency. Unfortunately I can not recall where I
 found that info.

 This is presumably F-speak. AFAIK Debian has only packaged this as
python3-ly and it's not in jessie/stable. This may be why the latter's
 version of F is old.


 - Was only the Frescobaldi settings part new to you? Should it be
   mentioned?

 Yes it would. Installing Frescobaldi does install Lilypond, which is
 very convenient, if it was the correct Lilypond version.
 Frescobaldi should mention only the old version is installed, and go
 the the Lilypond website for info how to install Lilypond 2.18.2.

 It's not clear to me what is meant by "correct LP version" or
 "Frescobaldi should mention...". Earlier in the thread, Joram points
to [3]http://lilypond.org/unix.html and implies that he has something to
 do with its maintenance. (See below.) But that's for LP. There's also
 [4]http://frescobaldi.org/download which has instructions about
 installing F's dependencies. Is that the page you wish to improve?
 If so, you have to bear in mind that people's idea of "correct LP
 version" could vary widely.

On that page, there is a link to [5]http://frescobaldi.org/links#distros
 which seems to be very out of date. For example it mentions
 Debian "testing" with a link to
 [6]http://packages.debian.org/nl/squeeze/editors/frescobaldi
 That's about six years or three distributions out of date.

I can't find any statement that says you don't need a specific version of LP to install with a given version of F. It just so happens that at
 the moment the stable version of LP (2.18.2) is the same as the
 stable version of F (2.18.2 since December 26th, 2015). Perhaps
 this is all the more reason to point out that LP from 2.16 to 2.19
 will all run with F 2.18.2 (and older versions too).


 On 27-02-16 19:11, Noeck wrote:

 Hi Bernard,

 Am 27.02.2016 um 18:54 schrieb Bernard:

 Wow, Joram. Thank you very much. Did this work.

 Glad it helped you.


Update the installation documentation with your info would help very much.

There was a similar question just a few days ago, so I take this request
 for improvement seriously. Did you find the Linux download page
 [7]http://lilypond.org/unix.html before? There is a small "Install"
 section. What was missing for you?

 - Should it mention the --prefix option?
 - Should it mention that you can have several versions installed in
   parallel?
 - Was only the Frescobaldi settings part new to you? Should it be
   mentioned?

 Cheers,
 David.

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   On 03.03.2016 18:08, David Wright wrote:

 On Thu 03 Mar 2016 at 09:37:55 (+0100), Blöchl Bernhard wrote:


 -------- Originalnachricht --------
 Betreff: Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu
 Datum: 03.03.2016 09:03
 Von: Blöchl Bernhard [10]<address@hidden>
 An: address@hidden

 The headline in the original post was not correctly positioned! The
 subsequent text to it was NOT written by David Wright but lies in my
 own responsibility. The headline should only referencing the
 citation. Sorry for my mistake. Here the corrected version:

 I did not read the complete thread and after reading the last
 posting I will not do that.

 I have no idea which posting you mean by "last posting". "Last"
 is particularly ambiguous in English; we do not even have the
 distinction in meaning made AIUI by the position of "dernier"
 in French.


 That is a collection of citation of
 unverified storys, opinions and wishes.

 ... So I have no idea of what _your_ opinion refers to, which
 means it's impossible to agree or disagree with you. That's why
 we normally quote what we're referring to on mailing lists.


 I do not understand the
 central problem and how to address it to lilypond? And Frescobaldi
 AFAIK is anothert development team?

 I don't understand why you've written question marks here.
 Are you implying that someone has stated that "you do not understand
 the central problem and how to address it to lilypond" and that you
 disagree with them? If so, who implied it, and where?

 I can't parse the construction "And Frescobaldi as far as I know is
another development team?". If _you_ don't know what you know, how can
 anyone else?


 Am 03.03.2016 06:40, schrieb David Wright:


 But even better, use a apt-get ppa repository, this you keep u to
 date your self, without being dependant of Debian.

For the second time, you have posted that David Wright wrote something
 that David Wright didn't. Please take more care with your postings.


 The content and versions of a repository are in the responsibility
 and taste of the package manager(s) and usually can not simply be
 affected by the software developers, say lilypond or frescobaldi
 development team. A repository is a COLLECTION of software for a
 particular linux version

 I agree with all that.


 - you want a "repository" only contending
 lilypond/frescobaldi? Who should do that?

 I don't want anything; this isn't _my_ problem. There was an original
problem that "Bernard [12]<address@hidden>" was having, coping
 with mixing an ubuntu distribution with software downloaded from
 elsewhere:
[13]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00758.html
 Then there was a discussion about clarifying some instructions, but I
don't know which instructions were being discussed becaues that wasn't
 made clear with a precise reference:
[14]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00772.html
 There followed a posting which contained "But even better, use a
 apt-get ppa repository, this you keep u to date your self, without
 being dependant of Debian" which is what I commented on:
[15]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00773.html
 This posting appeared to me to be muddling up different distributions
 (Debian, ubuntu), different ways of installing software (package
managers, direct installation of upstream software), software that had
 and didn't have (versioned or absolute) dependencies (lilypond,
 frescobaldi, python-ly, pyqt4, pyqt5).

 It did not appear to me that progress was going to be made in
 clarifying instructions (whichever ones are being discussed) unless
 the terms people used were better defined, and naked version numbers
 were avoided particularly as the main players have identical or
 closely identical version numbers at present. It's no effort to write
 LP 2.18.2 or F 2.16.2.


 For clarification best would be to target your problem precisely for
 a simple minded reader.

 Cheers,
 David.

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