Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi - I'm now a re-newbie, sort of. I just took the plunge into Linux, from WinXP, and I've run into a difficulty. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a laptop. Using Synaptic, I was able to install LilyPond 2.10 (I don't remember the release number). I downloaded 2.12.2-1 from the

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I've tried searching the mailing list archives, but I'm not finding anything that helps. As far as I can tell, Synaptic is looking for a .deb file, not a .sh file. I tried running sh lillypond-2.12.2-1,linux-x86.sh as sudo from the command line, but the shell doesn't like it. I like these

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Upgrade_howtoprintable=yes /Mats Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I'm now a re-newbie, sort of. I just took the plunge into Linux, from WinXP, and I've run into a difficulty. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a laptop. Using

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Ralph Palmer
Thanks, Bert - I don't have my laptop handy, so I can't tell you the what the responses were to my attempts, beyond remembering that some said they couldn't open the file (lillypond-2.12.2-1,linux-x86.sh), couldn't find the command (lillypond-2.12.2-1,linux-x86.sh), or there was an unexpected do

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Ralph Palmer
Thank you, Mats. I'll try it as soon as I get a chance. Ralph On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.sewrote: See http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Upgrade_howtoprintable=yes -- Ralph Palmer Montague City, MA USA palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/2/13 Ralph Palmer palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com: I've tried searching the mailing list archives, but I'm not finding anything that helps. As far as I can tell, Synaptic is looking for a .deb file, not a .sh file. I tried running sh lillypond-2.12.2-1,linux-x86.sh as sudo from the command

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 13 February 2009, Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I'm now a re-newbie, sort of. I just took the plunge into Linux, from WinXP, and I've run into a difficulty. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a laptop. Using Synaptic, I was able to install LilyPond 2.10 (I don't remember

Re: Installing 2.12

2009-02-13 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/2/13 David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com: You need to make lilypond-2.12.2-1,linux-x86.sh executable: $ chmod +x lilysh And then to execute it. sh lily... does execute it, no need to make it executable. Unlike windows, your current directory is probably not in the path, so