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

[David Wright]

On Tue 11 Apr 2023 at 17:04:07 (-0700), 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
> sh $LILYPOND_INSTALLER
> 
> with LILYPOND_INSTALLER set to lilypond-2.23.6-1.linux-64.sh

… (a 64-bit version).

> 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

Reading that post and its OP, it looks as if they installed a 32-bit
version on a 64-bit OS. Can you check that you're not doing the opposite?

My machine:

$ uname -a
Linux axis 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21) x86_64 
GNU/Linux
$ 
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Apropos the version that you're installing, 2.23.6. That's the last
version of LP that comes as an insaller. More recent versions come
as an archive which you just unpack somewhere. Does this change
have anything to do with why you're running this old and otherwise
unnotable version?

Cheers,
David.