Re: Documentation question.

[David Wright]

On Tue 07 Feb 2017 at 11:22:29 (-0000), Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hwaen Ch'uqi"
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> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 10:52 AM
> Subject: Documentation question.
> 
> 
> >Greetings All,
> >
> >I have been trying to install lilypond-2.18.2 along with its
> >documentation. From the command line, I have called
> >
> >sudo sh lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh --prefix /usr/ --documentation
> >
> >LilyPond itself installs just fine, but I get these messages relative
> >to the documentation:
> >
> >No ./lilypond-2.18.2-1.documentation.tar.bz2 found, downloading.
> >--2017-02-07 05:19:21--
> >http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/documentation/lilypond-2.18.2-1.documentation.tar.bz2
> >Resolving lilypond.org (lilypond.org)... 82.94.241.173
> >Connecting to lilypond.org (lilypond.org)|82.94.241.173|:80... connected.
> >HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> >2017-02-07 05:19:21 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> >
> >Is this a temporary problem? Thanks for any advice.
> >
> >Hwaen Ch'uqi
> 
> 
> I don't understand the Linux command for installing the
> documentation, but I can say that we do not recommend the use of the
> lilypond server for large downloads.  The documentation is mirrored
> at http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/documentation/

I think the problem is that the installation scripts from at least
2.18.2 through 2.19.36 were rendered out of date by the change that's
proposed in your bug fix:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2016-04/msg00047.html

Naturally all the older installation scripts have:

mirror="http://lilypond.org/download";

instead of:

mirror="http://lilypond.org/downloads";

I hadn't realised there was a mirror in the UK (I assume) until
I read this thread. Are there US ones, etc?

Cheers,
David.