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Installing Picard on Linux

Setup and install guide for Picard under Linux. If you don't want to install third party binary packages, have a look at PicardSourceInstall.

To install Picard on Ubuntu (i386 and amd64) follow these steps:

If you haven't used universe and multiverse repositories yet, add them first.
Add repository
```
deb http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/ubuntu edgy musicbrainz
```
to your /etc/apt/sources.list. See Ubuntu documentation for more detailed guide on adding repositories.
Run these commands to update lists of package and install Picard
```
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install picard
```
Alternatively you can use Synaptic to install Picard.

The repository is signed with LukasLalinsky's PGP key. To import the key to apt, run this command:

wget http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/public.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

A package for Picard is in the Debian Experimental repository.

Marti Raudsepp (aka intgr) has written a Portage overlay for Picard 0.7 and related packages, plus bleeding-edge subversion ebuilds.

Augusto Oliveira has created the necessary PKGBUILDs for Picard 0.7 and all its dependencies. The main PKGBUILD can be found at:

And the procedure to be followed to install it can be found at:

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-To install Picard on Ubuntu (i386) follow these steps:
+To install Picard on Ubuntu (i386 and amd64) follow these steps:
 # If you haven't used '''universe''' and '''multiverse''' repositories yet, [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#head-5bbef89639d9a7d93fe38f6356dc17847d373096 add them first].
 # Add repository <pre>deb http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/ubuntu edgy musicbrainz</pre> to your <code><nowiki>/etc/apt/sources.list</nowiki></code>. See [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#head-155b53308911d4d3869b3650856a41550f57f891 Ubuntu documentation] for more detailed guide on adding repositories.