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. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user