Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[Blöchl Bernhard]

why /home1/myusername?
Normally linux uses /home/myusername
without a one.

Am 05.06.2016 16:43, schrieb David Wright:
> Just a quick note before I go off to do real work...
>
> On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 07:49:41 (+0000), Mike wrote:
> > > > [~]# bash lilypond_install/lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh --prefix lilypond
> > >   ^^^^
> > > I can't understand this. It looks like root's prompt, not a user's.
> >
> > It's just my user's prompt. It shows that I'm in my home dir.
>
>
> > [~]# pwd ; ls -l lilypond/usr/lib/libgs* 
> > lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/
> > /home1/myusername
> > /bin/ls: cannot access lilypond/usr/lib/libgs*: No such file or 
> > directory
> > /bin/ls: cannot access lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/: No such file or 
> > directory
> >
> > [~]# pwd ; ls -l lilypond/lilypond/usr/lib/libgs*
> > lilypond/lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/
> > /home1/myusername
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 6094432 Mar 17  2014
> > lilypond/lilypond/usr/lib/libgs.so.8.70*
> >
> > lilypond/lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/:
> > total 16
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 myusername myusername 4096 Oct  6  2013 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 myusername myusername 4096 Mar 17  2014 ../
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername  180 Jun  5 01:34 00-lilypond.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername   39 Jun  5 01:34
> > 20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
>
> Interesting that you had to descend a level to see those links.
>
> My suggestion is that you reinstall with the script just as I showed,
> using a unique, non-existing prefix. The obvious prefix is
> lilypond-2.18.2-1 which includes the version number. I'm *guessing*
> that you've tried to install into directory that's already
> populated.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
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