Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Austin
If you're doing a workshop, I imagine it's sort of an intro, and that recent changes won't really matter. 2.12.3 is still perfectly usable. As far as EXT2/3/4 on a thumb drive, you can set the GID of the files to a group that all the users are members of, such as "user", and make sure group owners

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 26/10/2011 23:03, Alex Austin ha scritto: Isn't lilypond in the official Ubuntu repo? yes, but it's still v2.12.3 I want to use the last stable ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 26/10/2011 22:55, Alex Austin ha scritto: Most USB sticks are formatted as FAT and not EXT, so they lose file permission bits. Not sure that lilypond would still be executable off of a thumb drive. I'll use ext. The only concern I have is precisely about permissions. IIRC, as the files I've

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Austin
Isn't lilypond in the official Ubuntu repo? - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il 26/10/2011 22:59, Alex Austin ha scritto: > > Can lilyp

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 26/10/2011 22:59, Alex Austin ha scritto: Can lilypond be installed in /opt/? Ask the admin if that's possible. That's where 3rd-party software usually goes. No, they told me that no 3rd-party software is allowed. Just official Ubuntu repository.

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Austin
Can lilypond be installed in /opt/? Ask the admin if that's possible. That's where 3rd-party software usually goes. - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Federico Bru

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 26/10/2011 22:45, -Eluze ha scritto: i have a USB-stick with 4GB and one with 16GB (both for the price of 10-20 bucks, one bought a few years ago the other 1 year ago). on the 4GB stick i could store more than 50 versions of lilypond (plus jedit or Frescobaldiā€¦) i don't understand the proble

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Austin
Most USB sticks are formatted as FAT and not EXT, so they lose file permission bits. Not sure that lilypond would still be executable off of a thumb drive. - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On We

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread -Eluze
Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > Lilypond sh package decompressed is around 60 MB. > > I guess that the best solution is bringing a bunch of USB drives and > copying the executables there. > > But I wonder if there's any other solution... > I don't know ho many USB drives I'll need. > i have a U

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Austin
Another option is, once the files are stripped down, pack them up in a squashfs, and loop-mount them in place when needed. - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Feder

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 26/10/2011 07:34, Alex Austin ha scritto: mkdir $HOME/lilypond mount none -t tmpfs $HOME/lilypond cd $HOME/lilypond wget /url/of/lilypond.sh ./lilypond.sh Figure out what packages you don't need, delete them and the .sh package, and copy everything else into a different, non-tmpfs directory in

Re: damn small lilypond

2011-10-25 Thread Alex Austin
mkdir $HOME/lilypond mount none -t tmpfs $HOME/lilypond cd $HOME/lilypond wget /url/of/lilypond.sh ./lilypond.sh Figure out what packages you don't need, delete them and the .sh package, and copy everything else into a different, non-tmpfs directory in your home folder. On Oct 25, 2011 5:45 PM, "Fe