On Fri 04 Sep 2020 at 14:09:06 (-0400), Tom Swan wrote: > I copied and executed script "lilypond-2.20.0-1.linux-64.sh" from the > Downloads page. It seems to run but afterwards, "lilypond --version" still > reports GNU LilyPond 2.18.2. What am I doing wrong? Also tried apt-get > upgrade lilypond, which reports "lilypond is already the newest version > (2.18.2-12build1)" so now I'm stuck. How do I get the newest release?
Please don't post HTML, particularly without any text version. If you executed sh lilypond-2.20.0-1.linux-64.sh it will presumably have responded with: You are about to install LilyPond in /home/tom/lilypond A script in /home/tom/bin will be created as a shortcut. Press ^C to abort, or Enter to proceed. Typing lilypond --version will run the version in your PATH, which is unchanged (see ouput from apt-get). Most people won't want ~/lilypond in their PATH (along with directories for other "foreign" software), so conventionally they put ~/bin in their PATH, with either the binary (when simple/small) or a script placed in ~/bin. LP does the latter (typically four scripts plus eight symlinks). Here's my PATH: $ echo $PATH /home/david/bin:/home/david/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games $ How to set it? That depends on how you login. If you run X with startx, then it's simple, put this into your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login, whichever you use. ( For Desktop users, it's probably somewhere else.) export PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" Just take care not to have any double colons, or have any colons at the beginning or end of the PATH. Cheers, David.
