@setfilename INSTALL.info
@settitle INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
+@comment FIXME -- this information is getting rather stale
+
@contents
@chapter Compiling and installing on Unix
Even numbered versions are `stable' (2.0, 1.8 etc), while odd version
are development releases (2.1, 1.9, etc). Building LilyPond is an
involved process, so if possible, download a precompiled binary from
-@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/,the lilypond site}.
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/,the lilypond site}.
@subsection Source code
Download source tarballs from here:
@itemize @bullet
@item Download development releases from
-@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
@item @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/} by FTP (Canadian mirror).
@end itemize
following software:
@itemize @bullet
+@item @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/fonts,ec-fonts-mftraced}
+@item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE} (version 1.6.0 or newer).
+@item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.1 or newer).
@item @TeX{}.
@item Xdvi and Ghostscript.
@item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE} 1.6.0, or newer.
@subsection Building documentation
You can view the documentation online at
-@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it
locally. This process requires a successful compile of lilypond. The
documentation is built by issuing:
@example
make web
@end example
-Building the website requires some additional tools:
+Building the website requires some additional tools and packages:
@itemize @bullet
+@item @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/fonts,ec-fonts-mftraced}
@item The @uref{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/,netpbm utilities}
@item ImageMagick
@end itemize