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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 1.8.8. It is possible to build LilyPond with version 2.x of Guile and most features will work, but this is not officially supported (yet). In particular, performance and especially the startup time will be worse.
• Pango
  Use version 1.36 or newer; version 1.38 or newer is recommended.
• Python
  Use version 3.5 or newer.

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