Sure, if you're up on your
Linux, no problem, but the Linux world is drawing a number of people
who come from other backgrounds (i.e., Windows), AND don't have a lot
of time to study up.
Knowing that you run a program by doing
cd progdir
./progname
or adding it to your PATH environment variable isn't a great deal
of knowledge.
- Graham
But if your only previous experience running software is double-
clicking, it's pretty daunting. And most software that requires that
knowledge is written by people who already know it. I'll say it,
lilypond was the first thing I ran on a command line. And it took me
about two weeks (maybe longer) following the directions in the
lilypond tutorial on how to do it.
For example, if it's the first time you've seen it, path/to/
Lilypond.app can be confusing. Most macintosh applications don't show
the suffix, so I had to figure out that the "LilyPond" program in my
applications folder was actually "LilyPond.app". Secondly, I had to
figure out that path/to/ is the actual path to LilyPond, not something
else.
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