Re: LilyPond 2.20 or 2.21 on Ubuntu 18.04

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-07-18 6:13 am, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Am Do., 18. Juli 2019 um 14:37 Uhr schrieb Ralph Palmer
> <address@hidden>:
> > Greetings -
> >
> > I'm running LilyPond 2.19.81 with Frescobaldi 3.0.0 under Ubuntu 
> > 18.04.2.
> >
> > Has any progress been made in making a process available to install 
> > LilyPond 2.20 or 2.21 on Ubuntu 18.04? Back in March of this year 
> > (2019), there was a brief discussion about installing Guile 1.8 on 
> > Ubuntu 18.04, so that ly 2.20 could run. I tried to follow the 
> > suggestions, but was unsuccessful. If someone would be willing to work 
> > with me, perhaps off-list, and we were successful, maybe we could post 
> > a working process to enable others to install and use ly 2.20.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Ralph
>
> To have access to the currently not released 2.20 you'll need to
> compile the branch stable/2.20 from the ly-git-repository. To do so
> you need guilev1.
> Though, isn't guile-1.8 available via synaptic?
> At least for me, running Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit, it is...
> Ofcourse this may be different for newer Ubuntu-versions or other OS...

I have Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and an `apt search` does not turn up 
guile-1.8.  Do you have a custom PPA?

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> apt-cache policy | grep http | awk '{print $2 $3}' | sort -u
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-backports/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-backports/universe
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic/multiverse
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic/restricted
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic/universe
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-updates/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-updates/multiverse
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-updates/restricted
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-updates/universe
http://ppa.launchpad.net/fish-shell/release-2/ubuntubionic/main
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-security/main
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-security/multiverse
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-security/restricted
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntubionic-security/universe
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Not like it matters too much, since instructions have already been 
posted for obtaining and building guilev1 manually.


-- Aaron Hill