GNU LilyPond program usage: 1.1 Precompiled binaries

## 1.1 Precompiled binaries

### Downloading

Check out http://lilypond.org/web/install/ for up to date information on binary packages for your platform. If your operating system is not covered on that general page, please see the complete list at http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/

We currently create binaries for

>     darwin-ppc  - MacOS X powerpc
>     darwin-x86  - MacOS X intel
>     freebsd-64  - FreeBSD 6.x, x86_64
>     freebsd-x86 - FreeBSD 4.x, x86
>     linux-64    - Any GNU/Linux distribution, x86_64
>     linux-ppc   - Any GNU/Linux distribution, powerpc
>     linux-x86   - Any GNU/Linux distribution, x86
>     mingw       - Windows x86

#### Known issues and warnings

If you have MacOS 10.3 or 10.4 and you would like to use Python scripts such as `convert-ly` and `lilypond-book`, see Setup for MacOS X.

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#### Application Usage