How kind of you, I thank you very much and I will take your advice, it will
surely help me. I wish you all the best!
> El 15 abr 2024, a las 3:09 p.m., Maurits Lamers via LilyPond user discussion
> escribió:
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> The DMG was a way to quickly install Lilypond, but it came with a few
> downsides.
>
> The biggest one was that Lilypond was bundled as part of the LilyPad editor
> app. This was what was started when you would doubleclick Lilypond.app. The
> LilyPad editor was a very barebones editor, and as with every piece of
> software it needed maintenance. That maintenance became problematic and
> increasingly pointless when comparing the feature set of that editor with
> something like Frescobaldi.
> Additionally, in later versions of macOS, Apple started requiring signed
> applications, for which you need a (paid) Apple Dev account.
>
> Therefore, the decision was made to offer lilypond as a download in .zip
> format (generic package), instead of a .dmg with a .app in it. Sadly it is
> not as simple as copying over the contents of a .dmg, but the increased
> strictness by Apple around signed applications is a major cause.
>
> To install lilypond on a modern mac, you can follow these steps:
>
> Download the generic package for macOS (lilypond-2.24.3 at the moment of
> writing) from https://lilypond.org/download.html
> doubleclick on the downloaded zip file, to have the Archive Utility.app unzip
> it.
> you will find a folder called "lilypond-2.24.3"
> move this folder to the Applications / Apps folder
> Check in System Preferences under Privacy and Security that your App security
> setting is set to "App store and identified developers"
> open the lilypond-2.24.3 folder in the Applications folder, and open the bin
> folder inside of that
> right click on the file called lilypond, and choose open
> macOS will prompt you with a warning that it cannot verify the identify of
> the developer of 'lilypond' and whether you would like to open it or not.
> Choose open.
> Open the libexec folder and repeat step 7 to 9 with the files python3.10, gs
> and convert-ly.
> Depending on which executables you need to use for your use case in addition
> to the ones above, you might have to repeat step 7-9 for more executables in
> the bin and/or libexec folder.
> Assuming you use Frescobaldi as editor, go to the settings in Frescobaldi and
> add this lilypond version to the list of lilypond versions.
> Following these steps should make things work as expected (without requiring
> any Terminal knowledge).
>
> cheers
>
> Maurits
>
> Op 15-04-2024 om 22:22 schreef Alejandro Castera:
>> Good afternoon, community.
>>
>> I've been using Lilypond on Mac for a long time, but for a few years now
>> they haven't released a new version to install in DMG format. There are some
>> packages to install via "ports" (which I haven't understood what they are)
>> and using MacPorts or Homebrew (which I haven't understood how to use
>> either). All this through the Terminal command line, which I don't
>> understand how to use. For this reason, I am still using LilyPond version
>> 2.20 because it was the last one installable as DMG. Please, if someone can
>> guide me to install the latest version of LilyPond 2.24.3 because I have
>> tried several times in different ways and have not succeeded.
>>
>> Please, LilyPond developers, we need a DMG installer because not all of us
>> Mac musicians know the Terminal command line.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your attention.
>> Regards
>>
>>
