I had to install some decent recent Lilypond-version and downloaded lilypond-2.8.5-1.linux.sh
Looking into the shell-script I found === Options --prefix PREFIX install into PREFIX/lilypond/ (default: $prefix) --batch no interaction --tarball extract tar file for archive --help this help === and extracted the tar-ball. I would prefer the whole thing in a tree for itself. Therefore I extracted the whole ball into /opt/lily and tried with ldd whether Scientific Linux (SL-43) has the required libs for ldd /opt/lily/usr/bin/lilypond. (odd path by the way.) Works nicely. A small script /usr/local/bin/lilypond starts the /opt/lily binary. I think the script does something like that. Making a symlink from /opt/lily/usr/bin/lilypond to e.g. /usr/local/bin/lilypond does not work. Apparently lilypond checks out wherefrom it is run and grabs the libraries accordingly. I had to change the python-path in convert-ly, probably the installer would change the Python path to the included python; I can see that most of the required programs and libraries are included in the tarball. This way the system is not at all changed by the Lilypond package. I think that others might want to know. Regards/Donald -- http://d-axel.dk/ -- Donald Axel, Consultant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
