Linux Mint

The following instructions were tested on ‘Linux Mint 17.1’ and ‘LMDE - Betsy’ and will download all the software required to both compile LilyPond and build the documentation..

• Enable the sources repository;
  1. Using the Software Sources GUI (located under Administration).
  2. Select Official Repositories.
  3. Check the Enable source code repositories box under the Source Code section.
  4. Click the Update the cache button and when it has completed, close the Software Sources GUI.
• Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies (approximately 200MB);

  sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond
  

• Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for compiling;

  sudo apt-get install autoconf fonts-texgyre texlive-lang-cyrillic
  

• 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 apt-get install git
  

  Also see Working with source code.

sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex