Re: Configuring home/bin PATH directory

[Urs Liska]

Am 13.11.18 um 10:08 schrieb J Martin Rushton:
> On 13/11/18 08:31, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Keizen Li Qian wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I installed 2.18.2 on a drive with a partitioned home directory which
> > > had an old ~home/bin/lilypond. Somewhere the path had been set to this
> > > directory so even after convert-ly successfully converted my old files
> > > to 2.18, running lilypond still grabbed an old version in home/bin. After
> > > renaming the old directory, I get bash: /home/bin/lilypond: No such
> > > file or directory
> > > I'd appreciate any detailed suggestions for updating this path and
> > > finding information like this. Thank you!
> > >
> > > Keizen
> > Hi Keizen,
> >
> > ~home/bin/lilypond or /home/bin/lilypond doesn't look right to me
> >
> > I would expect something like ~/bin/lilypond or /home/${USER}/bin/lilypond
> >
> > In a terminal what does
> >
> >      which lilypond
> >
> > return? And what did you expect it to return?
> >
> > And what do you get if you type
> >
> >      echo $HOME
> >
> > Also check files like .bashrc and .bash_profile in you HOME directory.
> >
> > I am talking Linux (Fedora) here, you did not mention what OS you use.
> OP quoted the error message: "bash: /home/bin/lilypond: No such file or
> directory", so I think we can all safely assume Linux or something like
> Cygwin.

Indeed, and I'd expect something like /usr/bin/lilypond or 
/home/<username>/bin/lilypond

The OP should also tell us how LilyPond was installed (I assume from the 
downloaded installer).

Urs