Re: lilypond-book executable

[David Wright]

On Thu 11 Feb 2021 at 17:00:33 (-0600), Luke Bang wrote:
> I just installed lilypond and according to the website I see that there's a
> lilypond-book executable I can run in the Windows version.
> I don't see this in the /usr/bin directory, but I do see some other file by
> the name lilypond-book which is not an executable. Am I missing something?

A listing of the directory might help. For linux, that looks like:

$ ls … lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx  67 abc2ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  67 convert-ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  67 etf2ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
-rwxr-x--- 180 lilypond
lrwxrwxrwx  67 lilypond-book -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  65 lilypond-invoke-editor -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.guile
-rwxr-x--- 555 lilypond-wrapper.guile
-rwxr-x--- 557 lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  67 midi2ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  67 mup2ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
lrwxrwxrwx  67 musicxml2ly -> 
/…/lilypond-2.22.0-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python3
-rwxr-x--- 874 uninstall-lilypond
$ 

So almost all the programs that one commands are symlinks to
wrapper scripts that ensure the correct library versions are used.
(The number are "file" sizes.)

Cheers,
David.