Pierre Russell Straddler wrote:
preface: I just got a "top posting" error message, which I've never seen
before. I apologise for this breech of protocol and etiquette....
Hi there
I tried to download Lilypond from the lilypond site. When I "do what I am told"
(i.e. "open with text editor) I get this message:
could not open the file /tmp/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh.
gedit has not been able to detect the character coding. Please check that you
are nopt trying to open a binary file. Select a character coding from the menu
and try again
(my choices are Current Locale (UTF-8) and Western (ISO-8859-15)
neither of which work.
That said,
lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh
is sitting on my desktop.
I open a terminal window and type
sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh
and I get the error
sh: can't open lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh
?
so I looked around a little bit and found this:
I downloaded the file from website, but when tried to open it got a message:
Could not open the file /home/anne/Desktop/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh.
Yes; apparently gedit is trying to open the .sh files as shell
scripts; however the LilyPond distribution is actually a "shar"
self-extracting archive (same extension, but completely different size
and data in it).
You just have to _execute_ this file:
just open a terminal, and type
cd ~/Desktop
sudo lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-ppc.sh
+ + +
I am not a power PC user, but instead an x86 user with the latest version of
Ubuntu and so I typed:
the cd ~/Desktop
sudo lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh
still didn't work. I get the error
"Can't open lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh"
sudo sh lilypond-2.11.65.1.linux-x86
works fine here...
maybe try with ./
sudo sh ./lilypond-2.11.65.1.linux-x86.sh
and perhaps chmod +x lilypond-2.11.65.1.linux-x86.sh
then
sudo ./lilypond-2.11.65.1.linux-x86.sh
hmmm just noticed a possible typo in your command
"lilypond-2.10.33.-1.linux-x86.sh"
should there be a dot after 33???
use the tab key to autocomplete in terminal - saves time
Anyone? Please?
Thanking you!
Pierre Russell Straddler
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