Re: Difficulty running convert-ly under Linux/Ubuntu

[Ralph Palmer]

Thanks, Michael -

I don't have time now, but I'll try in the morning!

Ralph

______

Ralph Palmer

Seattle

USA

(he, him, his)

palmer.r.violin@gmail.com

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:21 PM Michael Werner <reznaeous@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm also on Ubuntu here (well, to be a bit more precise I'm using the KUbuntu distro, but should be close enough). I tried your command and had it fail. But, when I altered it just a bit it worked. All I had to do was specify the full path to the convert.ly file, like this:

find . -name '*.ly' -exec /home/michael/lilypond/lilypond-2.24.0/bin/convert-ly -e '{}' \;

Maybe give that a shot and see what happens.

Michael

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:53 PM Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.violin@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings -

Jean Abou Samra kindly pointed me in the right direction for the installation of 2.24.0 in Linux with Frescobaldi.

I was successful. Then I tried running convert-ly for all my .ly files, using

find . -name '*.ly' -exec convert-ly -e '{}' \;

on the command line. That was unsuccessful.

I also tried

convert-ly -e $(find . -name '*.ly' -print)

but both of those commands were unsuccessful. In both cases, I got the message

6: exec: /home/rpalmer/lilypond/usr/bin/python3: not found

even though Python 3.10 is in the LilyPond directory. Ah, but I don't see my usr/bin directory. I'm still confused.

Any suggestions?

All the best,

Ralph

______

Ralph Palmer

Seattle

USA

(he, him, his)

palmer.r.violin@gmail.com