Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

[David Wright]

On Tue 26 Apr 2022 at 17:13:47 (+0200), Joram Noeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> will there be a .sh file like for older releases?
> https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/
> 
> The Download page https://lilypond.org/development.html links to
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.23.8/downloads/lilypond-2.23.8-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
> whereas it used to link to an installer (.sh) in the past.

You don't need one. Just untar the file and that's it. I used:

$ cd
$ tar -zxvf path-to-my-archive/lilypond-2.23.7-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ mv -i lilypond-2.23.7 lilypond-2.23.7-linux-x86_64¹

I run it from a script as:

$ ~/lilypond-2.23.7-linux-x86_64/bin/lilypond

though some prefer it in their $PATH. I presume it's changed because
it no longer needs all the wrapping that the old installer script did.

¹ I want the architecture in the directory name.

Cheers,
David.