Re: LilyPond 2.20 or 2.21 on Ubuntu 18.04

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> well, I've multiple guile-versions on my machine, though one of it is
> the distributed guile-1.8.
> If available it's the most easy way to get this one.
>
> Ofcourse the discussion is a little bit academic as you said...
> Nevertheless:
> (1)
> ~$ uname -a
> Linux kasten 4.15.0-54-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 24 10:55:24 UTC
> 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> (2)
> ~$ apt-get install --dry-run guile-1.8
> NOTE: This is only a simulation!
>       apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
>       Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
>       so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> guile-1.8 is already the newest version (1.8.8+1-10ubuntu1).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's sort of pointless since for compiling LilyPond, you need the
development package (guile-1.8-dev I think which isn't available as far
as I remember).  The scripts are fine running with guile-2.0.

-- 
David Kastrup