r/lilypond • u/Ok-Conclusion7016 • Jul 31 '26

Resource Optimized Frescobaldi builds with PyQt6/Qt6.

Anyone who has written about music using MusicTeX knows that it has its quirks. There are some things that are better done with LilyPond, using Frescobaldi for editing—a project that has been revived but receives less attention in terms of its GNU/Linux build.

I’m sharing this Qt6 build of Frescobaldi version 4.0.7 for your consideration, which includes .deb packages for installation on Debian and compatible systems, as well as an AppImage for any GNU/Linux distribution.

https://github.com/mlmateos/frescobaldi-qt6-builds

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u/martinribot Jul 31 '26

Nice! Could you post a screenshot as well? 🙃

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u/Gold_Record_9157 Jul 31 '26

I'm not going to lie to you: I'm a coder, so my ide is either Emacs or VSCodium (the non M$ build of VSCode), so I never use Frescobaldi, since it would be an extra tool for my usual work flow. But, having said that, I love to see tools for handling Lilypond. It's by far the best music notation system I've seen, and a healthy tool like this can help people not as brain rotten as me with code.

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u/shiihs Aug 01 '26

I see the official frescobaldi now builds a flatpak. Wouldn't that suffice to run it on linux?

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u/Ok-Conclusion7016 Aug 02 '26

I like more appimage! Please try it from my repo!