On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:44, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi, I don't know where should I post this kind of message, but I need
> to use lilypond as one of my working tools. I got stunned when I saw
> today that lilypond version available at portage tree is 2.0.3 ....
> the latest stable version is 2.6.5 and 2.0.3 is extreme old.
>
> Is there a reason that lilypond version is not up to date .... and
> should I build myself ( without portage ) if I want to used it ?
>
> --
> An application asked:
> "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better",
> so I´ve installed Linux
The newest version of lilypond in portage is 2.5.2. It is still in testing
i.e. ~ARCH.
$ eix lilypond
* media-sound/lilypond
Available versions: 2.0.3 ~2.2.4 ~2.2.6 ~2.4.2 ~2.5.2
Installed: none
Homepage: http://lilypond.org/
Description: GNU Music Typesetter
Also you should search bugs.gentoo.org for the package before asking this kind
of question. That would have brought you to this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97574
If you wish to use an ebuild that is not in portage have a look at this howto:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
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