As there are no .deb packages for the 2.5 series yet, the easiest way, as
has been suggested to me, is to compile it from source. If you compile
with a prefix for your home directory, you don't have to worry about
overwriting anything from your stable install. It has also been suggested
to me to create a new user, so instead of having to uninstall before
installing a new version (also from source), all you would have to do is
create a new user in whose home directory to install the new version.
The problem that I had when trying to compile from source is the
ghostscript prerequisite. I have not yet found a new enough debian binary
for the new version of Ghostscript (8.15+), and I found some difficulties
in trying to compile it myself. When school lets out for the summer, I may
try to tackle this again.
Something I have not yet tried, but may be fruitful, is to install
ghostscript from the fedora rpm using alien.
If you are able to install from source, please let me know what you had to
do.
Josiah
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Aaron Mehl wrote:
HI all,
I would like to install the development version of
lilypond and still keep the stable one.
1, Is there a debian package for the latest and
greatest?
speifically a sources.list entry.
2. how can I have two parrallel lilypond versions
running on my system?
Thanks
Aaron
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