Blender 2.41

Hello-
If I have downloaded that blender 2.41 does it have all the libraries with it? I just got a copy of the Blender 2.3 Guide book and it lists libraries that I will need but it says if you have downloaded from the source. Not quite sure what is meant by this.
Thanks,
k

You don’t need any libraries, if you don’t want to compile blender. Simply start the executable.