Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

[Urs Liska]

Am 18.05.2016 um 17:11 schrieb Paul:
> Hi all,
> I've installed the latest lilypond dev version 2.19.42 on ubuntu 16.04
> following the instructions on the lilypond website:
> http://lilypond.org/unix.html
>
> namely with:
> $ sh lilypond-2.19.42-1.linux-64.sh
>
> But when I cd to my home directory and run
> $ lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond test.ly
>
> I get this warning and fatal error:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.19.42
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> ...

> Converting to `test.pdf'...
> warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite
> -f/tmp/lilypond-IqnFXX)' failed (256)
>

I don't exactly know *why* you have this specific behaviour but I'm
nearly sure that it is related to the fact that this calls your system
version of Ghostscript instead of the one included in LilyPond, and that
doesn't match.

HTH
Urs

> fatal error: failed files: "test.ly"
>
> The test file is simply:
> \version "2.19.42"
> { c d e f }
>
> Any suggestions?  I also have lilypond 2.18.2 installed via the ubuntu
> software center (or maybe it was installed when I installed
> Frescobaldi via ubuntu software center, I forget) and it runs fine.
> The two versions are installed in different locations:
>
> 2.18.2:  /usr/bin/lilypond
> 2.19.42: ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond
>
> Thanks for any tips.  (I'm a new immigrant wandering wide-eyed through
> the twisted streets of GNU/Linux software installation procedures.)
>
> -Paul
>
>
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