2012/12/23 Jay Hamilton <i...@soundand.com>: > Ok I can put it in a different directory (I'm pretty sure) but your > 'depends' makes me leary that it's not straight forward in the running. > At the moment all I do and have done for years is create a piece in an > editor save it to a folder click on file in the folder. > If I have to do something else .... what is that? > Thanks for the start. > Jay
Hi Jay, I've only 6 versions on my laptop. Most of them in my home-directory. To distuingish them, I renamed the folder and the programm (to be found in <folder-name>/usr/bin) and created shortcuts for the different programs. These shortcuts are per default found in /home/bin: among them `lilypond´. I pasted renamed files and changed the pathes. So I've the folder `lilypond-2-14-2´ containing the program `lilypond-2-14-2´ to be called with `lilypond 2-14-2´ the folder `lilypond´ (the current stable) containing the program `lilypond´ to be called with `lilypond´ the folder `lilydevel´ (the latest devel-version) containing the grogram `lily-devel´ to be called with `lily-devel´ There might be better methods but it works. In addition I've some other versions without shortcuts. If I want to use them, I've to call them with there full path. Example: I call a self-compililed 2.15.40 version (from a deep nested other folder) with : ../../../../lilypond-2.15.40/build/out/bin/lilypond <file-name.ly> "Calling them" means using the Terminal: Navigating to the directory containing the file you want to compile and than calling the program you want to use. IIUC, you never used the terminal. So I see only two ways for you (1) Learn how to use the terminal. (2) Use Frescobaldi. There you have the possibility to install other versions quite easily. Well, I don't like Frescobaldi, but there are many people which use it. I can't give advice for Frescobaldi, though. I've installed an old version and use it rarely. HTH, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
