If your new system is powerful enough (and no, I haven't any experience of this but I'm planning to do something like this myself :-)
Experiment with UML (User Mode Linux) and Gentoo. There's a good chance that if you get a minimal gentoo system running, then tell it to install the packages you need such as tetex 2.5, it will hopefully work fine. The portage system *should* resolve the necessary dependencies. As I say, I haven't done this. But it's an idea to play with ... and if you can get UML running you can easily run an old setup as a program inside Dapper :-) Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Laura Conrad Sent: 10 July 2006 14:14 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0 I sympathize with all the users who are just now running into the difficulties of keeping lilypond files in sync with lilypond development. I've been using lilypond since about 1.4, and it hasn't gotten any easier. I also agree with the people who've been saying that the right answer is to keep old lilypond versions installed, so that you can update a lilypond file in a minor way without going through the conversion and re-tweaking process every time. My problem is that I have several major projects that are in lilypond 2.0. Even where convert-ly performs flawlessly (which it doesn't for a number of features, like multi-verse vocal music), it would be at least hours and more likely days of work to do all the re-tweaking and repaginating to convert these books to lily 2.8. You can't just install lily 2.0 on a modern (less than a year old) linux system, because the fix for having lilypond use tetex 3.0 happened sometime in the 2.4 development cycle, and was never backported to older versions. Until last week, I was dealing with this on my Debian Unstable system by pinning tetex to 2.5. Unfortunately, last week my machine died, and I decided to put Ubuntu Dapper on the new machine. It turns out not to be possible to install tetex 2.5 directly on an Ubuntu Dapper machine. A very nice person on the ubuntu users list is attempting to walk me through building the tetex 2.5 from Ubuntu Breezy for Ubuntu Dapper, but it doesn't seem to be easy, and in any case, as a publisher I use TeX for enough things that sooner or later I'm sure I will want something that needs tetex 3.0. So I'm considering the following options: Installing Ubuntu breezy or some other distribution with tetex 2.5 on it in another partition on my giant new hard drive. I only need to change the 2.0 lily files a few times a year, so this might be the most straightforward thing for me to do. Seeing if I can run lilypond 2.0 from a TeX Live CD of the appropriate vintage. Has anyone tried to run any lilypond with any TeX Live CD and what were the results? Finding out what were the changes necessary for lilypond to run on tetex 3.0 and what's involved in backporting them to lilyond 2.0. Can anyone help with this? This would be the most straightforward answer for lilypond development in general. I'm sure I'm not the only person facing problems like this, so I'd be interested in hearing what other people are doing about them. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user * ************************************************************************ * This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 8272 5300, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. * ************************************************************************ * _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user