Am 03.03.2016 um 21:36 schrieb David Wright: > 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.
But there *are* distributions that don't have ~/bin at all by default. Don't recall where I encountered that, but it happens. > 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.) Just out of curiosity: could you give a more concrete hint (without exposing anybody to copy-and-paste-risk)? Urs > > 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
