difficulties with installing

2005-09-23 Thread Jobst Harders
Hallo, I would like to install lilypond on my system, using SuSE 9.1. I tried downloading the .package pack, but get the error message that python language runtime is not available. Is it impossible to install a ".package" program under SuSE (as i heard someone saying)? What other possibilit

Re: difficulties with installing

2005-09-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
From the error message it seems that the simple solution is to install python. I don't know any details about SuSE, but I'm sure that you can find one or more packages called python*. It seems that your email took some time to reach the list, since emails from people not subscribed to the list ar

Re: difficulties with installing

2005-09-27 Thread Timothy Heath
Jobst, Mats, I wrote earlier to the list regarding my own difficulty installing a Lilypond autopackage to a SuSE 9.0 system. I had received the same message as Jobst did when I tried to install the lilypond autopackage. One person did kindly respond to me privately, but his experience was wit

Re: Difficulties with Installing

2005-09-28 Thread Timothy Heath
I have installed SuSE 9.3 on a computer, and then installed lilypond 2.7.10 from the autopackage. It installs without incident. The python21 rpm package present in earlier versions of SuSE 9 seems not to be present in SuSE 9.3, and is not needed for the install. I have not checked yet to see

Re: difficulties with installing

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Timothy Heath writes: > Solution 3: Is there any chance that the lilypond team might add all the > ghostscript requirements to the autopackage? The autopackage developers advised us to remove libpng, as it would be installed on every Linux system. The 2.7.11 autopackage has libpng re-added but

Re: Difficulties with Installing

2005-10-07 Thread Timothy Heath
Jan, I have tried an install of the 2.7.11 autopackage under SuSE 9.0. Now the problem is Guile, which it says is not found. I checked the system, and SuSE 9.0 has Guile 1.6.4-42. I guess lilypond 2.7.x or 2.6.x needs Guile 1.6.5 or later? I checked around and find that SuSE stuck with Guil