I'm using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) and have just helped a friend, a Linux newbie, transition his Lilypond approach on his Linux box. My sincere advice is to just download the software from the website and use that. The installation is super easy and even easier to upgrade (once you've installed it once you then know how to upgrade it). The distros are notoriously bad about keeping Lilypond up-to-date so you are much better off doing it yourself. If you want a more detailed explanation hit me up and I'll go into more detail. But seriously, it is a far better, easier, and less messy method of using Lilypond.
As for your question, I am unaware of any PPA for Lilypond. There is one serious gotcha with PPAs which is that when you upgrade your distribution to a new version I think most/many/all(?) of your custom PPAs get disabled requiring you to enable the ones you want to use. And there might be some weird incompatibilities introduced as well. And it requires the PPA maintainer to keep maintaining their repository which for a smaller program like Lilypond might not actually happen. Oops, there I was, once again, extolling the virtues of installing it yourself. Sorry. Dave On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ryan McClure <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm about to switch to Elementary OS soon as my default OS...I'm not > enjoying > my Arch Linux experience as of late. On Arch, I have access to the AUR for > Arch that allows me to have access to the most recent build of LilyPond. I > would like this for Elementary OS. However, I would prefer a package that I > can update through the package manager rather than installing it from the > command line into a directory...package managers are much cleaner in my > opinion. > > So, I'm wondering if there is a PPA that allows me to have the most > up-to-date version of LilyPond? I am about to install Elementary based on > 14.04, but in the default repos the most recent version is 2.16 according > to > my research. If anything, I'd like 2.18 at least. > > Does anyone know if such a PPA exists? If not, I wouldn't mind creating a > PPA for this, but I don't know at all how to create one. Thanks all! > > > > ----- > Ryan McClure > > Music Education Major, Shepherd University > Luna Music Engraving > www.lunamusicengraving.com > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyPond-PPA-for-Ubuntu-other-related-OS-tp168412.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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