I was tring to set up lilydev within virtualbox on OSX and had some trouble. Please let me know if you have any clues as to how I should proceed.
I was able to get virtualbox installed. However, when loading the lilydev vm, there were two concerning things. The first was right after choosing install, the following mount errors appeared (briefly, I had to screen capture it). mount: mounting /dev/sda on /media failed: Invalid argument umount: can't umount /media: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev/sda on /media failed: Invalid argument The second issue was during the install, the debian package manager failed. I tried several different mirror options, but they all produced the same error: [!!] Configure the package manager Bad archive mirror An error has been detected while trying to use the specified Debian archive mirror. Possible reasons for the error are: incorrect mirror specified; mirror is not available (possibly due to an unreliable network connection); mirror is broken (for example because an invalid Release file was found); mirror does not support the correct Debian version. Additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog on virtual console 4. Please check the specified mirror or try a different one. Since I couldn't figure out a working mirror, and it provided me the option to continue the install without the package manager, I proceeded without the mirror. I wondered whether the package manager issue was due to the network. But once I completed the install, rebooted the VM and logged in, I was able to run ping on the command line with success. And the lilypond script that ran automatically completed with success. Continuing through the quick start pages, when I run lily-git.tcl, it opened a window with messages like ...checkout master... already on master your branch is up-to-date on 'origin/master' ... switched to branch 'dev/local_working' git-cl is available, and the git pull command says it's up to date. I updated my Google account access and requested an account on the issue tracker on the dev list. Since git-cl seemed to be only for making changes, I figured I'd go ahead and try to build lilypond based on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/compiling-with-lilydev So, I tried the following: cd $LILYPOND_GIT sh autogen.sh --noconfigure mkdir -p build/ cd build/ ../configure And got these errors from the configure: ... checking FlexLexer.h location... conftest.cc:2:23: fatal error: FlexLexer.h: No such file or directory #include <FlexLexer.h> ^ compilation terminated. ... ERROR: Please install required programs: FlexLexer.h (flex package) guile-config < 1.9.0 (installed: 2.0.13) (guile-devel, guile-dev or libguile-dev package) libguile (libguile-dev, guile-devel or guile-dev package). GUILE-with-rational-bugfix So, do you think this error is based on the package manager issue? Or is this expected behavior? Please let me know if you have any suggestions for how I should proceed to get my lilybin installed and working. Thanks, David Elaine Alt 415 . 341 .4954 "*Confusion is highly underrated*" ela...@flaminghakama.com self-immolation.info skype: flaming_hakama Producer ~ Composer ~ Instrumentalist -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel