Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> writes: > I thought I would test out the binary that is on denemo.org and > downloaded it in a virtual machine running a vanilla Debian stable O/S, > the result: it will not even start. The executables ~/usr/bin/denemo and > ~/usr/bin/lilypond are present and have the right permissions but > attempting to execute them from the bash prompt results in a baffling > "No such file or directory" message: > > ls -l denemo > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rshanngub rshanngub 1479840 Nov 25 23:00 denemo > rshanngub@debianGUB:~/denemo/usr/bin$ ./denemo > bash: ./denemo: No such file or directory > rshanngub@debianGUB:~/denemo/usr/bin$ > > and then the same thing for lilypond: > > ls -l lilypond > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rshanngub rshanngub 4377128 Nov 25 23:00 lilypond > rshanngub@debianGUB:~/denemo/usr/bin$ ./lilypond > bash: ./lilypond: No such file or directory
That's typical if a) the file is an executable script b) it has a #! comment in its first characters c) the named executable in the #! comment does not exist >> Do you have any users actually having success with the binary package >> on Ubuntu? If not, telling people that the "ancient" versions >> delivered with the system itself are not to be used is creating a >> rather large barrier of entry. > > As I say, I am told that it is a Ubuntu system that it gets tested on, > but if would help if we got more feedback from users. I occasionally > get visits from people with apple macs and the mac versions have > worked on their machines and I test windows versions on two or three > machines with various flavors of their o/ses. A GNU/Linux binary you > would have thought would be easier than either of those to get working > ... (As I wrote this I recalled that I have a small partition with > Ubuntu 12.04 installed, I rebooted and went through the same process > as with Debian Stable and got the same, bizarre result). I think we > need to warn people that they may well need to built it :( It may also help to put the binary directory into PATH proper, like with export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/denemo/usr/bin" (don't use ~/denomo/... since that does not work reliably.) -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
