Re: Incorrect Lilypond version

[Patrick Horgan]

Federico Bruni wrote:
> ...elision by patrick...
>
> I've often wondered why, even though I have a version of LilyPond 
> installed from repository (therefore located in /usr/bin), when I 
> install a package of a new version that version becomes the default in 
> the environment.
>
> For example now:
> address@hidden:~$ which lilypond
> /home/fede/bin/lilypond
>
> What kind of trick is this?
It's your PATH.  The PATH is how unix/linux finds things.  If you type:

echo $PATH

you'll see that either ~/bin, or /home/fede/bin, comes before /usr/bin.  
They're searched in the order they occur in your PATH.  If you'd like it 
to be different, find the file that sets it when you log in.  It will be 
something like .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile.  Edit that file and 
change the order of things, (or add too), your PATH.

Patrick