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 > <lilypond-user@gnu.org> 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 >> >>
