Re: Removing bundled LilyPond

[Gilles Sadowski]

Hello.

> Usually it is sufficient to rename the old executable and point a
> symbolic link to the new one; say you installed the recent version in
> /home/johndoe/bin/lilypond/, and the default choice is in /usr/bin/,
> then you have do
>       mv /usr/bin/lilypond /usr/bin/lilypond-2.10.33
>       ln -s /home/johndoe/bin/lilypond/lilypond /usr/bin/lilypond

This is not to be recommended as it interferes with the distribution's
package management and will break at some point (e.g. next upgrade).

Gilles