On Thu 03 Mar 2016 at 12:41:28 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > The LilyPond installation is really trouble-less, and I have the feeling > that all the confusion came up because someone mixed LilyPond and > Frescobaldi. > > If you don't want to install LilyPond using apt-get (for example because > you are recommended to use a newer version) you can simply download the > installation script and run it using "sh path/to/downloaded/script.sh". > This will install LilyPond locally in your user account. There are no > further dependencies or the need of administrator rights. > The only thing that *may* be needed is to add the ~/bin directory to > your $PATH.
Most people will have ~/bin in their $PATH, as you know. For those that don't (and who are unlikely to have edited their PATH before, I think it might be sensible to show an example of what it will look like, emphasising that : is a separator, not a terminator or delimiter. I've known people add a security vulnerability to their system by getting this wrong. (It puts any directory into your $PATH while you're in it.) Example of an example: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/david/bin $ Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user