Re: ubuntu package

[Jonathan Kulp]

Regarding James' point, in Linux you take care of this by using "sudo" 
before the install command.  I should have eplained this in my previous 
email.  The "sudo" prefix gives temporary root privileges and installs 
the program in a location where all users on the system will have access 
to it.  When you run the uninstall script, you also have to preface the 
command with sudo or else you get errors saying you don't have 
permission to delete certain files and directories.  Of course you can 
also install as a regular user (i.e. without using "sudo"), in which 
case it installs to your home directory, and the uninstall script will 
be in a different location.  As I said before, be sure to copy the 
message from the terminal that says how to uninstall lilypond and save 
the info.  I've done dozens of uninstalls and re-installations of 
lilypond and I still always have to copy that uninstall command from my 
little cheat-sheet :)

Jon

James E. Bailey wrote:
>      ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
> What that means is that if you aren't logged in as the user root (which 
> you most likely aren't) then you kinda should put as one of the 
> configure options that lilypond should install somewhere that's specific 
> to you, e.g., ~/

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