Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> writes:

> On 2019-08-09 4:16 pm, Bill via lilypond-user wrote:
>> Oh well I tried
>> i downloaded
>>
>> lilypond-2.19.83-1.linux-64.sh
>> from this
>> GNU/Linux 64: LilyPond 2.19.83-1
>>  buttonat
>>
>> http://lilypond.org/development.html
>> I tried to upgrade using Synaptic package Manager but that only showed
>> 2.18.2 which i have installed.
>
> This is an installation script, not a package.  To my knowledge, it
> has nothing to do with any package managers.
>
> As such, you will first need to use your package manager to manually
> uninstall any existing LilyPond package if you have one that you want
> to replace.

Not even that.  /usr/local/bin takes priority over /usr/bin so there is
usually no harm in keeping the system LilyPond as well.  You can still
call it with explicit path if you want to compare results.

-- 
David Kastrup

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