1 FAQ - GNU LilyPond Frequently Asked Questions
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10 Please read the full online FAQs
11 (http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki?LilyPondFaqs). Also, please look in
12 the searchable mailinglist archives:
14 * help-gnu-music (http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@gnu.org)
16 * bug-gnu-music (http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@gnu.org)
19 (http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)
21 If you are still at loss, send your questions to the *mailing list*,
22 and not to authors directly.
27 Where is guile, libguileX, guile-config?
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30 RedHat users need to install guile-1.4 and guile-devel-1.4, Debian
31 users need to get guile1.4, libguile9 and libguile9-dev.
33 If you're building from source, you need guile 1.3.4 or newer.
34 Verify that the correct guile, guile-config, and libguile* in your PATH
35 and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or `/etc/ld.so.conf').
37 I upgraded by applying a patch, and now my configure/build breaks.
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40 Patches don't include automatically generated files, i.e.
41 `configure' and files generated by `configure'. Regenerate them
47 I downloaded the windows32 port, and it doesn't match the website!
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50 The website is usually made from the latest snapshots. Binary
51 releases, in particular the windows32 binaries, are only made every
52 once in a while. They may lag several versions behind the latest
55 Beams, slurs and crescendi are not displayed at all!
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58 XDvi uses GhostScript for displaying PostScript, check that you have
59 GhostScript installed. If you use a different DVI viewer (eg, on
60 Windows), check if it will display embedded PostScript. Don't worry,
61 the symbols should appear on the printout.