Re: Having some trouble getting LilyPond to run on the command line

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno ven 25 set 2015 alle 4:28, Daniel Miller
> <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> I'm new to the mailing list. I'm hoping that someone can give me
>> some help with getting LilyPond to run on the command line. I
>> followed the steps at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html for
>> installation. I then got through step 3, creating lilypond-book,
>> convert-ly, etc. However, I'm stuck on chmod u+x lilypond. That
>> returns an error:
>>
>> chmod: lilypond: No such file or directory.
>
> Make sure you are in the correct directory, as explained on the
> website. Type these two commands in the terminal:
>
> cd ~/bin
> ls
>
> If you see a file called lilypond, then you can change the permissions:
>
> chmod +x lilypond

And if it already fails at the cd command, you might want to do

mkdir ~/bin

first.

-- 
David Kastrup