Re: Ubuntu and LilyPond from scratch

[James]

On 21/02/14 16:55, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 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.

Yes ... it's 'pimps' as my sister would say.

> 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.

yup.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2538#c12

It's all there.

See the next comment

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2538#c13

for the bits and pieces for 'complete' dev env.


Ubuntu is such a huge beast now (even with the Ku and Xu versions) that 
have tripled in size the current lilydev (which is based on 10.04) - 
which still works by the way as I use it all the time, all you would 
need to do is use that and then run apt-get update and download the 
updates, whicih takes no longer than installing a new later version of 
Ubuntu anyway.

I don't know how to build a 'liveCD' from other distributions and the 
tool that I used for lilydev is no longer being developed and while it 
works for 13.10 it still produces huge ISO files (2GB in size). I've 
been trying to find a way to build a _small_ ISO file for a new lilydev 
but time and experience are alluding me.

But we could just update the CG (I thought Eluze had done that, but am 
obviously mistaken) based on that tracker I referenced above.

James