Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[David Wright]

On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 09:54:35 (+0000), Mike wrote:
> > I'll try a hello world now.
> 
> Uhm... Hello world is having trouble with ps->pdf, so far as I can see.
> Again, executing that command manually worked fine, and the resulting PDF
> looks good.
> Should I start a new thread?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [~/tmp/lily]# lilypond test.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.18.2
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Layout output to `test.ps'...
> 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 -ftest.ps)'
> failed (256)
> 
> fatal error: failed files: "test.ly"
> [~/tmp/lily]# cat test.ly
> \version "2.18.2"
> {
>   c' e' g' e'
> }
> [~/tmp/lily]# ls -lrt
> total 156
> drwxr-xr-x 11 myusername myusername   4096 Jun  5 03:44 ../
> -rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername     36 Jun  5 03:45 test.ly
> -rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername 139566 Jun  5 03:46 test.ps
> drwxr-xr-x  2 myusername myusername   4096 Jun  5 03:46 ./
> [~/tmp/lily]# gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps
> [~/tmp/lily]# ls -lrt
> total 176
> drwxr-xr-x 11 myusername myusername   4096 Jun  5 03:44 ../
> -rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername     36 Jun  5 03:45 test.ly
> -rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername 139566 Jun  5 03:46 test.ps
> -rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername  20036 Jun  5 03:50 test.pdf
> drwxr-xr-x  2 myusername myusername   4096 Jun  5 03:50 ./
> [~/tmp/lily]# 

This sort of error is usually a good sign that you're trying to run a
locally installed LP with the Linux Distribution versions of, eg,
GhostScript or Python; not a good idea.

Your full output of the installation process (in the other subthread)
is useful, difficult to understand, and so it'll take a bit of looking at
in due course.

Cheers,
David.