LilyPond Contributor's Guide: Fedora

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Fedora

The following instructions were tested on ‘Fedora’ versions 22 & 23 and will download all the software required to both compile LilyPond and build the documentation.

Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies (approximately 700MB);
```
sudo dnf builddep lilypond --nogpgcheck
```
Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for compiling;
```
sudo dnf install autoconf gcc-c++
```
Download texi2html 1.82 directly from: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/texi2html/texi2html-1.82.tar.gz;
texi2html is only required if you intend to compile LilyPond’s own documentation (e.g., to help with any document writing). The version available in the Fedora repositories is too new and will not work. Extract the files into an appropriate location and then run the commands;
```
./configure
make
sudo make install
```
This should install texi2html 1.82 into /usr/local/bin, which will normally take priority over /usr/bin where the later, pre-installed versions gets put. Now verify that your operating system is able to see the correct version of texi2html.
```
texi2html --version
```
Although not ‘required’ to compile LilyPond, if you intend to contribute to LilyPond (codebase or help improve the documentation) then it is recommended that you also need to install git.
```
sudo dnf install git
```
Also see Working with source code.

Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation, pdfTeX is used. However ligatures (fi, fl, ff, etc.) may not be printed in the PDF output. In this case XeTeX can be used instead. Download and install the texlive-xetex package.

sudo dnf install texlive-xetex

The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation will use XeTeX instead of pdfTeX to generate the PDF documents if it is available. No additional configuration is required.

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LilyPond — Contributor’s Guide v2.25.8 (development-branch).