On 11/11, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 00:11:53 (-0800), ma...@masonhock.com wrote:
> > Assuming that your architecture is amd64:
> > 
> > $ wget
> > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond/lilypond_2.19.83-1~exp1_amd64.deb
> > 
> > $ sudo dpkg -i lilypond_2.19.83-1~exp1_amd64.deb
> 
> Add 
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond/lilypond-data_2.19.83-1~exp1_all.deb
> to that.

Good catch, thanks.

> But the disadvantage of installing that way is that the distribution
> only supports one version of LilyPond, and there are advantages to
> being able to run more than one.
> 
> If you download the program from lilypond.org, install with
> $ bash …path-to/lilypond-2.19.83-1.linux-64.sh --prefix 
> lilypond-2.19.83-1.linux-64
> and run with lilypond-2.19.83-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond …,
> you can have several versions available.

Yes, this is probably the easiest way to install 2.19 without going
through the package manager.

Mason

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