Thanks, Michael - I don't have time now, but I'll try in the morning!
Ralph ______ Ralph Palmer Seattle USA (he, him, his) palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:21 PM Michael Werner <reznae...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm also on Ubuntu here (well, to be a bit more precise I'm using the > KUbuntu distro, but should be close enough). I tried your command and had > it fail. But, when I altered it just a bit it worked. All I had to do was > specify the full path to the convert.ly file, like this: > find . -name '*.ly' -exec > /home/michael/lilypond/lilypond-2.24.0/bin/convert-ly -e '{}' \; > Maybe give that a shot and see what happens. > > Michael > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:53 PM Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Greetings - >> >> Jean Abou Samra kindly pointed me in the right direction for the >> installation of 2.24.0 in Linux with Frescobaldi. >> >> I was successful. Then I tried running convert-ly for all my .ly files, >> using >> >> find . -name '*.ly' -exec convert-ly -e '{}' \; >> >> on the command line. That was unsuccessful. >> >> I also tried >> >> convert-ly -e $(find . -name '*.ly' -print) >> >> but both of those commands were unsuccessful. In both cases, I got the >> message >> >> 6: exec: /home/rpalmer/lilypond/usr/bin/python3: not found >> >> even though Python 3.10 is in the LilyPond directory. Ah, but I don't see >> my usr/bin directory. I'm still confused. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> All the best, >> >> Ralph >> ______ >> Ralph Palmer >> Seattle >> USA >> (he, him, his) >> palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com >> >