MusicBrainz Picard Installation
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Dependencies
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Before installing Picard, you need to have these libraries:

 * PyQt 4.1 with Qt 4.2 or newer
   http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
   http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/

 * Mutagen 1.9 or newer
   http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Development/Mutagen

 * ctypes (optional, only needed for Python 2.4)
   http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/

 * libdiscid (optional)
   http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libdiscid

 * FFmpeg (optional)
   http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/

 * libofa (optional)
   http://www.musicip.com/dns/downloads.jsp


Installation
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After installing the dependencies, you can install Picard by running:

  python setup.py config
  sudo python setup.py install

This will automatically build and install all required Python modules. To
start Picard now you can use:

  picard


Running From the Source Tree
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If you want to run Picard from the source directory without installing, you
need to build the C extensions and locales manually:

  python setup.py config
  python setup.py build_ext -i
  python setup.py build_locales -i

And to start Picard use:

  python tagger.py
