LilyPond Contributor's Guide: 4.6.1 Installing LilyPond from a local build

### 4.6.1 Installing LilyPond from a local build

If you configured `make` to install your local build in a directory where you normally have write permission (such as your home directory), and you have compiled LilyPond by running `make`, you can install the program in your target directory by running:

>     make install

If instead, your installation directory is not one that you can normally write to (such as the default ‘`/usr/local/`’, which typically is only writeable by the superuser), you will need to temporarily become the superuser when running `make install`:

>     sudo make install

or...

>     su -c 'make install'

If you don’t have superuser privileges, then you need to configure the installation directory to one that you can write to, and then re-install. See Configuring target directories.

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