Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[David Wright]

Just a quick note before I go off to do real work...

On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 07:49:41 (+0000), Mike wrote:
> > > [~]# bash lilypond_install/lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh --prefix lilypond
> >   ^^^^
> > I can't understand this. It looks like root's prompt, not a user's.
> 
> It's just my user's prompt. It shows that I'm in my home dir.


> [~]# pwd ; ls -l lilypond/usr/lib/libgs* lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/
> /home1/myusername
> /bin/ls: cannot access lilypond/usr/lib/libgs*: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: cannot access lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> [~]# pwd ; ls -l lilypond/lilypond/usr/lib/libgs*
> lilypond/lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/
> /home1/myusername
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 6094432 Mar 17  2014
> lilypond/lilypond/usr/lib/libgs.so.8.70*
> 
> lilypond/lilypond/usr/etc/fonts/conf.d/:
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 myusername myusername 4096 Oct  6  2013 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 myusername myusername 4096 Mar 17  2014 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername  180 Jun  5 01:34 00-lilypond.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername   39 Jun  5 01:34
> 20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf

Interesting that you had to descend a level to see those links.

My suggestion is that you reinstall with the script just as I showed,
using a unique, non-existing prefix. The obvious prefix is
lilypond-2.18.2-1 which includes the version number. I'm *guessing*
that you've tried to install into directory that's already
populated.

Cheers,
David.