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From: | Trevor |
Subject: | Re: Reduce LilyPond installation disk size |
Date: | Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:58:11 +0000 |
Hi Trevor,
On 2017-02-22 11:31, Trevor wrote:
> To run LilyPond on AWS Lambda for LilyBin, I need to upload a zip
> file containing the LilyPond executable and assets, and it must be no
> larger than 50 MB. Recent versions of LilyPond unstable are about 52
> MB zipped (zip -r9). Are there any large files in the installation
> directory I can delete without breaking anything? Or maybe I could
> compress executables better than zip does?
some suggestions:
1.) Use the --symlink option for zip, i.e., use
zip -r9 --symlink archive.zip <files/directories>
Otherwise, you end up with multiple copies of identical files in the archive.
2.) Remove some of the language data that you won't use from usr/share/locale/.
3.) Use tar and xz if supported by the server (tar -cJf archive.tar.xz <files/directories>), which brings the "official" 2.19.55 x86_64 binary from lilypond.org down to ~24 MB. (FWIW, the installer is basically a bzip2'ed tarball in a shell script wrapper, and weighs ~30 MB.)
HTH,
Alexander
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