Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting josiah boothby <address@hidden>:

> Honestly, I think this is the problem:
>
> > I am afraid to lose the lilypond-snapshot 2.4.1 and remain with no
> > working lilypond, which has become essential to me.
>
> My advice would be to uninstall this with apt-get, and try the GUB
> installer. Deleting the binaries doesn't uninstall the program.


As long as you make sure that the new LilyPond installation is
placed in a directory that is before the old installation in the $PATH 
environment variable, there should be no need to remove
the old version.

 /Mats