Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

[josiah boothby]

Honestly, I think this is the problem:

> I am afraid to lose the lilypond-snapshot 2.4.1 and remain with no
> working lilypond, which has become essential to me.

My advice would be to uninstall this with apt-get, and try the GUB
installer. Deleting the binaries doesn't uninstall the program.

Josiah

On 4/12/06, Luise Marion Frenkel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>
> > > I just don't know why in a root shell I get
> > >
> > > address@hidden:~# lilypond -v
> > > bash: /usr/bin/lilypond: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > but it does not matter.
> > >
> > Hmm, it seems your system needs a bit of a clean! I'm glad to see it's
> > working though.
> >
> > If you were having trouble with the lilypond executable, you may also
> > run into the same trouble with the other scripts, such as convert-ly and
> > lilypond-book. Try, for example, 'convert-ly --version' and 'which -a
> > convert-ly' and see what happens. If you need any advice, please ask!
>
> I think I need a new Linux, but I cannot change this on my own. To have
> a Debian based Linux that mixed from the beginning stable and testing
> proved to be a very bad idea. I try to keep it as clean as possible with
> little success.
>
> You were right, and I had remaining convert-ly, lilypond-book and
> lilypond-latex from 2.4.0. Removing the old ones and installing again
> 2.8.1 I now have:
> convert-ly : works only in a root shell, where it is version 2.8.1 and
> works as expected. In a user shell it gives:
> address@hidden:~$ convert-ly --version
> bash: /usr/bin/convert-ly: No such file or directory
>
> lilypond-book : works in root shell and user shell, version 2.8.1
>
> lilypond: works in user shell but not in root shell, where it gives the
> same error as with convert-ly
>
> Well, I can live with this very well, and these problems do not seem
> Lilypond related.
>
> I am happy for coming so far, and thank you for it.
>
> Luise.
>
> >
> > Cameron
> >
>
>
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