Luise Marion Frenkel wrote: > > Thank you so much! Now it works, very well! > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > >> How have you installed LilyPond in the past? With apt-get or some other way? > > Yes, with apt-get, usually from packages made by some Lilypond > contributors. > >> If you've used apt-get (or some other package manager), that would be >> the best way to remove it now. I presume that's not possible, so you >> might have to do something a little more drastic. (If you accidentally >> remove lilypond-snapshot are you able to reinstall it?) > > apt-get did not work, I suppose because 2.4.0 never installed > completely. I have been trying to do drastic things which made things > worse. No, lilypond-snapshots are no longer available, they stopped > shortly after 2.4.2 because of Debian packaging problems of Lilypond, > and as far as I understood from one e-mail of Laura Conrad, it is no > longer possible to install 2.4 in Debian because of old libs. > >> Try 'which -a lilypond'. That will show you the location of every >> LilyPond executable in your $PATH. Getting rid of those--or modifying >> your $PATH--may be your best option. > > Thanks. It helped a lot. As you can see I am a very inexperient user of > Linux, although I am happy to have come that far without any advisors. > It would be easier if I had not to be careful not to break anything > with the system the whole family uses. > > I got rid of the two files > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# which -a lilypond > /usr/bin/lilypond > /usr/local/bin/lilypond > > and installing again was enough. > > I just don't know why in a root shell I get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lilypond -v > bash: /usr/bin/lilypond: No such file or directory > > but it does not matter. > >> Do you access LilyPond from the command line or via emacs? > > Now again via emacs. It was horrible these last months, to have to use > command line and have all files being dumped into home, having to move > them back to their directories. > > I am thrilled to be able to use 2.8 now. > > Thank you so very much. > > Luise. > > Hmm, it seems your system needs a bit of a clean! I'm glad to see it's working though.
If you were having trouble with the lilypond executable, you may also run into the same trouble with the other scripts, such as convert-ly and lilypond-book. Try, for example, 'convert-ly --version' and 'which -a convert-ly' and see what happens. If you need any advice, please ask! Cameron _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user