My understanding of installing stuff into /usr/local/bin is that it will
take precedence over stuff that is installed from a package manager into
/usr/bin as it is first in $path. If the system finds it first in
/usr/local/bin it will use it, if not it will look for it in /usr/bin.
Shelagh
On 25 April 2013 05:09, Hilary Snaden <h...@newearth.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/04/13 19:36, Abrolag wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:59:38 +0100
> > Hilary Snaden<h...@newearth.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings!
> >>
> >> I'd like to try Rosegarden on my Debian Wheezy box, but I've already
> >> installed Lilypond 2.16.2 locally, which works as I need it to.
> >>
> >> I'm concerned that if I install Rosegarden from the Debian repo it will
> >> install its own (from my POV obsolete) version of Lilypond. How can I
> >> install Rosegarden while keeping Lilypond 2.16.2 and without breaking
> >> anything?
> >>
> > Where have you installed lilypond to?
> > If it's in /usr/local you'll be able to have both versions as debian
> installs
> > to just /usr
>
> It's in /usr/local/bin.
>
> > Instead of using just "lilypond" to launch the program your 'front end'
> will
> > have to do "/usr/local/bin/lilypond"
>
> I don't use a front end, not yet, anyway, I call it from a terminal. I
> suppose I could alias the local Lilypond and its successors. It's a
> shame lp is already taken. :)
>
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