Re: Uninstalling and reinstalling in linux [was: Re: Consistent gs problem PS->PDF 2.13.24]

[Nick Payne]

On 16/06/10 16:54, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> On Wed 16 Jun 2010, 08:46 Nick Payne wrote:
>    
> > I just downloaded and installed 2.13.24 - linux 64-bit running on
> > Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. After installing it, every file I try to build
> >      
> All the same, but could not catch this problem.
>
>    
> > Converting to `./bwv1007_prelude.pdf'...
> > `gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> > -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE
> > -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> > -sOutputFile="./bwv1007_prelude.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f
> > "bwv1007_prelude.ps"' failed (256)
> > error: failed files: "/home/nick/lilypond/Bach/BWV1007/bwv1007_prelude.ly"
> >
> > If I uninstall 2.13.24 and reinstall 2.13.23 the files all build
> > without error. Uninstall 2.13.23 and reinstall 2.13.24 and the error
> > returns.
> >      
> BTW, you need not to uninstall and reinstall to try different versions.
>
> What i'm using:
>
>   - before installing new version of lilypond i remove ~/lilypond, which is a
>     symlink actually,
>   - after installing a new version i move it to ~/lilyponds/lilypond-<version>
>     and make a symlink lilypond ->  ~/lilyponds/lilypond-<version>
>
> Everything works nice. To switch to other version i need to edit a symlink.
>    
I use sudo sh lilypond*.sh, which installs to /usr/local/lilypond, not 
~/lilypond. ~/lilypond contains all my ly source files.

Nick