Re: Problems with Frescobaldi and LilyPond

[John Wheeler]

On 5/22/22 21:27, Ralph Palmer wrote:

I have installed Frescobaldi 3.2 and LilyPond 2.23.9. Frescobaldi seems to load correctly, and I can view a saved LilyPond file. However, when I try to compile, I get the following message :

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Starting lilypond 2.23.6 [banishMisfortune.ly] . . .

/home/ralph/bin/lilypond: 4: exec: /home/ralph/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: not found

Exited with return code 127.

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When I run "lilypond" from the terminal, I get the same message (see the attached screen shot). I think I used to make adjustments to PATH:, but I can't even find PATH.

Should I try a complete uninstall of LilyPond and Frescobaldi and start from scratch?

    First, try finding the lilypond program in the directory tree. If
    you installed it by 'tar xzf lilypond-2.23.9-....tar.gz' in your
    home directory, look for lilypond at
    /home/ralph/ilypond-2.23.9/bin/lilypond.
    
    Normally, PATH is set either system wide or in a .bashrc file in
    your home directory. If you do not use bash for your command shell
    check your shell documentation for a startup or initialization
    file.  If the .bashrc does not set PATH you can add it there to
    override or augment the system set PATH.
    
    Considering you are getting the same error both in Frescobaldi and
    on the command line, the Frescobaldi setup is probably not the
    problem.  There is a setting, though, that can direct Frescobaldi to
    use specific LilyPond installations. It is found under
    Edit>Preferences>LilyPond Preferences in the LilyPond versions
    to use box.
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    John