Re: Installation of LilyPond without root permissions

[Rune Zedeler]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > (Yep, and I do have the "fonts installed in the wrong place"-problem - but
> > for now I am very happy)

> There's actually a remedy even if you're not allowed to touch
> the global teTeX installation.

> - Create a directory, for example ~/texmf.mine and the subdirectories
>   ~/texmf.mine/fonts/source/
> 
> - Goto ~/texmf.mine/fonts/source/ and make a link to the
>   Lilypond mf/ directory, e.g. 'ln -s "$HOME"/pgm/lilypond-1.3.xx/mf/'
> 
> - set the environment variable TEXMF to
>   '{\!\!'"$HOME"'/texmf.mine:\!\!$TEXMFMAIN}'
>   (it's critical to get the quotes correct, $HOME should be expanded
>   but $TEXMFMAIN should not be expanded)
> 
> - Run 'mktexlsr ~/texmf.mine' (if the mktexlsr command isn't found,
>   use texhash instead)
> 
> - See to it that MFINPUTS isn't defined.
> 
> Now everything should be setup. The generated fonts should now
> end up below ~/texmf.mine/fonts/tfm/ and ~/texmf.mine/fonts/pk/.

I did that. But when i run ly2dvi I get:

Interpreting music...
MIDI output to koral.midi...
Track ... 
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.2x)
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
ly2dvi Latex failed


What now?

-Rune