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<h4 class="unnumberedsubsubsec">Compilation</h4>
<p>In addition to the packages needed for running LilyPond (see below), you
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<p>When installing a binary package FOO, you may need to install the
FOO-devel, libFOO-dev or FOO-dev package too.
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</li><li> <a href="http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/">MetaFont</a> (mf-nowin, mf, mfw or
mfont binaries) and <a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html">MetaPost</a>
(mpost binary), usually packaged with a LaTeX distribution like
tetex or texlive.
</li><li> <a href="http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/#t1utils">t1utils</a>
(version 1.33 or newer recommended).
</li><li> New Century Schoolbook fonts, as PFB files. These are shipped with
X11 and Ghostscript, and are named ‘<tt>c059033l.pfb</tt>’
‘<tt>c059036l.pfb</tt>’, ‘<tt>c059013l.pfb</tt>’ and ‘<tt>c059016l.pfb</tt>’.
</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html">GUILE</a> (version
1.8.2 or newer). If you are installing binary packages, you may need to
install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
</li><li> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/">Texinfo</a> (version 4.11 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">The GNU c++ compiler</a> (version 3.4 or
newer. 4.x is strongly recommended).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> (version 2.4 or newer)
</li><li> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/">GNU Make</a> (version 3.78 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html">gettext</a>
(version 0.17 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/">Flex</a>.
</li><li> <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>.
</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/">GNU Bison</a>.
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<h4 class="unnumberedsubsubsec">Running requirements</h4>
<p>Running LilyPond requires proper installation of the following software
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<li> <a href="http://www.freetype.org/">Freetype</a> (version 2.1.10 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://fontconfig.org/">FontConfig</a> (version 2.2 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.pango.org/">Pango</a> (version 1.12 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html">GUILE</a>
(version 1.8.2 or newer), or patch 1.8.1 with
<a href="http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch">http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch</a>.
</li><li> <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> (version 2.4 or newer).
</li><li> <a href="http://www.ghostscript.com">Ghostscript</a> (version 8.15 or
newer. 8.60 recommended)
</li><li> Dejaview. (This is normally installed by default)
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<p>International fonts are required to create music with international text
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