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4.2.1 Requirements for running LilyPond

This section contains the list of software packages that are required to run LilyPond (this is, to successfully execute the lilypond binary and its subprograms to output a PDF, and to execute other programs like lilypond-book that are installed, too).

Additional software packages are necessary to compile LilyPond from its sources; this gets handled in a later section.

• FontConfig
  Use version 2.4.0 or newer.
• FreeType
  Use version 2.3.9 or newer.
• Ghostscript
  Use version 9.03 or newer.
• Guile
  Use version 2.2. Newer versions, such as Guile 3.0, may work but are not officially supported (yet).
• Pango
  Use version 1.40 or newer.
• Python
  Use version 3.6 or newer.
• Text fonts
  By default, LilyPond attempts to use the following text fonts, in descending order:
  • The families C059, Nimbus Mono PS, and Nimbus Sans of the URW++ package.
  • The families Cursor, Heros, and Schola of the TeX Gyre package.

  LilyPond requires the OTF files, which some distributions do not provide. If they are missing, download and manually extract the OTF files to your local ‘~/.fonts/’ directory.

  For more details on text fonts, please see Fonts.

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