Re: /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: not found

[William Rehwinkel]

Dear JD,

I'm not sure I can help much but will just write two things that come to 
mind.

Did you double check that the path /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond 
exists, and is not just a slightly different path? When I install 
lilypond from 
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.24.1/downloads/lilypond-2.24.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz 
the binary is usually found at /path/to/lilypond-x.x.x/bin/lilypond, not 
/<..>/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond. Something doesn't seem right about the 
path to lilypond and python3, as if it is supposed to be 
/usr/bin/{lilypond,python3} without /usr/local/lilypond appended to it. 
But again I haven't tried installing in this way.

My other guess is it is a sort of permissions error, like that directory 
or file is owned by a different user.

Other than that, hopefully someone else will be of better help.

-Will

On 4/11/23 20:04, JD Margulici wrote:
> Hello, I am running the following commands to install Lilypond on Alpine 
> Linux:
>
> wget https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/$LILYPOND_INSTALLER 
> <https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/$LILYPOND_INSTALLER>
> sh $LILYPOND_INSTALLER
>
> with LILYPOND_INSTALLER set to lilypond-2.23.6-1.linux-64.sh 
> <http://lilypond-2.23.6-1.linux-64.sh>
>
> The installation proceeds without glitches. However when I try to run 
> Lilypond I get the following error message, which in spite of its 
> apparent simplicity is rather cryptic since the file that is not found 
> actually exists:
>
> /usr/local/bin/lilypond: exec: line 4: 
> /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: not found
>
> Similar error with lilypond-book:
>
> /usr/local/bin/lilypond-book: exec: line 6: 
> /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/python3: not found
>
> I found a 15-year old post that reports the same error, but the 
> resolution was not clear: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00725.html 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00725.html>
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> JD

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