LilyPond

[Minyaliel]

LilyPond is a music notation software which makes absolutely beautiful scores. And it's much easier to use than most notation software. I know you've already got one notation software in the repos, but LilyPond is by far the better one. Please, please include it in the repos. I'm sure I'm not the only music student who needs such a thing. I've already tried to download it from the software's original site, but with no success. Please.

[AgenT]

Lilypond 2.2.6 is available in Breezy. You may have to enable all the repositories as it is available in universe.

[Minyaliel]

Huups alright thanks :)

[fdimmling]

Lilypond 2.2.6 is available in Breezy. You may have to enable all the repositories as it is available in universe.

That's true. But the version available - 2.2.6 - is absolutely outdated. 2.6.4 is the actual one, 2.4.6 is considered as _old_ and 2.2.6 as _ancient_. Since the program was improved considerably it should be worth being upgraded.

Friedrich

[linuxted]

That's true. But the version available - 2.2.6 - is absolutely outdated. 2.6.4 is the actual one, 2.4.6 is considered as _old_ and 2.2.6 as _ancient_. Since the program was improved considerably it should be worth being upgraded.

Friedrich

I wonder why such an old version is used for Ubuntu 5.1. I really hope the administrators of Ubuntu consider using the latest stable code (2.6.4).

I noticed a similar situation with the other music-notation language (abc)

off my soapbox now...

[jdong]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin//search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=lilypond&searchon=names
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=lilypond

Ubuntu is lagging behind indeed, but once it gets into Dapper, come bug me again about it and I'll file the backport for it!


Meanwhile, I've already poked some MOTU's about investigating the problem.

[jdong]

UPDATE: I've already made the right contacts with the devs, they'll fix it.

Accepted.

[Gustav]

great!!!

[fdimmling]

UPDATE: I've already made the right contacts with the devs, they'll fix it.

Accepted.

Thanks a lot!!!
BTW the same is true for the TeX system itself. Here also Breezy provides an antiquated version of tetex (2.x instead of 3.x) which lacks some important improvements.

Friedrich

[dizzy1234]

Not wishing to sound impatient, but when will the new version be available, and how will we know when it is?

[jdong]

It's already in Dapper, but I need someone to test whether it builds under Breezy.

I'm having APT hell with archive.ubuntu.com, so I can't do it right now. Maybe another luckier dev, or when I get a chance over the weekend to really probe into the problem.

[jdong]

Tested, build queued. Just waiting for James to do the upload :).

[dizzy1234]

Nice one.

Slightly off topic, but I tried to compile the source for lilypond 2.6.3 myself but got an error message to the effect that no suitable C compiler could be found. Bearing in mind I'm new to compiling, where would I go to find out about such things?

[jdong]

you need to run sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond to get all the packages necessary to build lilypond from source.

[dizzy1234]

does that command work (with "lilypond" replaced with whatever) for any app I want to compile from source code?

[jdong]

does that command work (with "lilypond" replaced with whatever) for any app I want to compile from source code?

Yes. apt-get source PACKAGENAME fetches the source for a package and extracts it. apt-get build-dep PACKAGENAME fetches the dependencies for building that package. dpkg-buildpackage inside the extracted folder initiates build.

That's a simplistic look at how Backports works!