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FAQ - GNU LilyPond Frequently Asked Questions

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I'm stuck, HELP!

Please read the full online FAQs. Also, please look in the searchable mailinglist archives:

If you are still at loss, send your questions to the mailing list, and not to authors directly.

Installation

Where is guile, libguileX, guile-config?

RedHat users need to install guile-1.4 and guile-devel-1.4, Debian users need to get guile1.4, libguile9 and libguile9-dev.

If you're building from source, you need guile 1.3.4 or newer. Verify that the correct guile, guile-config, and libguile* in your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or /etc/ld.so.conf).

I upgraded by applying a patch, and now my configure/build breaks.

Patches don't include automatically generated files, i.e. configure and files generated by configure. Regenerate them yourself:

    autoconf
    configure

Is there an emacs mode?

Yes. It is included with the source archive as lilypond-mode.el and lilypond-font-lock.el. If you have an RPM or .deb it is in /usr/share/doc/lilypond-X/. You have to install it yourself.

Add this to your .emacs.el:

    (load-library "lilypond-mode.el")
    (setq auto-mode-alist
     (append '(("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)))

I downloaded the windows32 port, and it doesn't match the website!

The website is usually made from the latest snapshots. Binary releases, in particular the windows32 binaries, are only made every once in a while. They may lag several versions behind the latest version.

Go back to index of LilyPond.

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