Re: How to get it working.

[Jan Kohnert]

Sarah Cordish schrieb:
> Sirs:

Hi,

> Mandrake lets me upload Thac's RPM's and install Lilypond. The Joe text
> editor is awful; is there a better one? 

Do you have a graphical Interface? If yes, try using nedit or gedit/kwrite (if 
you have Gnome/KDE). I'm using wrtie and it works well for me. If you don't 
have a graphical interface, try using nano or mcedit, which I for myself 
think to me more intuitive(?) than vi/vim/joe... But I know it's a matter of 
taste.

> After much fooling I got a 
> Lilypond code on a Joe file in my home folder.  I called Lilypond from a
> terminal

OK, you seem to have X.

> and gave the full filename before it could find it, then it says 
> stuff like Dvips doesn't work, Adobe isn't around, error, scream, yell.

No, don't screem, just tell about your error messages and we will be able to 
help you.

> I 
> tried this from start many times and spent a whole day on it.  I know the
> Adobe reader is installed; I can call it myself.

Are you trying to install 2.2.x? 2.0.x does not call acroread. But maybe the 
binary is not in your $PATH (at least in the terminal your starting lily in)?

> Can you direct me?  I tried to follow your instructions for installing the
> stable version of Lilypond and re-installed it a few times from the
> Internet.  I don't know what else to try.

Please post the complete output when you execute lily.

> Sarah Cordish
> Musician about to give up.

HTH, so don't give up!

Best regards Jan

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