Thomas, Thanks. CG chapter 2 starts off by saying that LilyDev has everything I should need, but then only mentions how to install it under VirtualBox (which I don't know at all) in Windows or MacOS. I'm a Linux newbie and haven't used Unix since about 2000 (on a Sun box), so it's all a bit of a learning curve.
Should I be looking at lily-git instead? I'm not an experienced git user, and it's beginning to look as if a minor change to three text files is going to end up with me being swamped in new software :) Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Saturday, January 4, 2020, 12:10:23 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Sa., 4. Jan. 2020 um 12:09 Uhr schrieb Peter > Toye <lilyp...@ptoye.com>: >> Yes, I'm on Windows, but have just resurrected an old laptop and have >> managed to get a Linux (antiX) system on it. And there's a spare partition >> to install LilyDev. I'll download it today. > Well, if you have a LINUX-machine, you may consider not to install > LilyDev at all, i.e. clone the git-repo directly. > LilyDev is meant to be used by windows users in a VirtualBox on their > windows-system. > It comes along with some other preinstalled things you will want. > If you don't use LilyDev you'll need to get those stuff yourself. > Otoh, going for LilyDev has it's own hassles. > Your decision. > Speaking only for me, I started with LilyDev, > although being on LINUX. > After some time I switched to my host-system for any LilyPond-work. > Though I kept all old and outdated LilyDevs, to keep the possibility > to compile checkouts of old patches for research-purposes. > Using old versions of gcc, ghostscript etc > I doubt you'll need that. > Cheers, > Harm
