Re: help with installation

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle <Michael> writes:

    Michael> Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> 
    >> I'm not much of a developer, but I do run Mandrake.  I usually compile
    >> my own lily, though.

    Michael> Laura, could you give me a little background!

    Michael> What version of Mandrake?

Currently, 8.1.  I have run lilypond on versions back to 6.something,
I think.

    Michael> Did you have to install 'guile'?

Yes, I currently have:

address@hidden tmp]$ rpm -qa | grep guile
guile-1.4-14mdk
libguile9-1.4-14mdk
libguile9-devel-1.4-14mdk

    Michael> Are you using 'rpm' to do the install? Or are you
    Michael> unpacking the archive and doing the compile "by hand/from
    Michael> a makefile"?

I have a script that downloads the tarball, unpacks it, and runs configure
and make.  It's attached.

getlily.sh
Description: Bourne shell script

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