Re: having trouble finding a packaged version of Lilypond

[Paul Scott]

Paul Scott wrote:

> Peter Dobratz wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I first started using Lilypond during the 1.4.x days.  Looking over
> > some of my sources that I was in the middle of updating for Mutopia I
> > ....
> > My primary system is Debian Unstable (i386), but the only version
> > available in the archive is 2.1.0 (which I assume is quite out of date
> > by now). 
>
> It's not clear how recent a version you want.  I am running Debian 
> unstable and I use the latest version, now 2.1.21, thanks to either 
> Pedro Kroeger or Ferenc Wagner.  This information is available by 
> simply going to the Lily web site, http://lilypond.org/web/index.html 
> and clicking on Download here under the version you want under 
> 'News'.  You will find the lines for your sources.list so you can 
> apt-get.

I should add that whenever you find a version that is solid enough you 
might save the deb from your /var/cache/apt/archives so you can go back 
to if something that you need breaks in the next version.  I am 
currently holding onto 2.1.14 until I am sure that 2.1.21 will do what I 
need.  The intermediate versions were broken for something I needed.

Paul