Re: Ubuntu and LilyPond from scratch

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> No sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I have just successfully
> installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 from scratch, followed by git, and the
> LilyPond repository.  Following the CG, I then ran autoconf and
> configure, apt-got the missing packages, and successfully ran make all
> and make doc.  I've never done this before from scratch - previously I
> used Lily-dev - and was surprised how easy it was.
>
> Some minor comments:
>
> I had to apt-get autoconf to enable the autoconf script to run and
> configure then required dblatex (a surprise - I thought this was no
> longer used?) and texlive-lang-cyrillic.  That's all.  Quite easy.
> make all and make doc then ran perfectly to completion.

You can probably just do

apt-get build-dep lilypond

to get the dependencies: I don't think they changed since Ubuntu 12.04.
It's conceivable that texlive-lang-cyrillic was not in that set (I think
Ubuntu 12.04 would have carried LilyPond 2.14 but am not sure).

-- 
David Kastrup