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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.

Mandriva

Picard is available in the Mandriva development version Cooker in the contribs repository. Cooker users can simply install it by running

urpmi picard

or by selecting it in rpmdrake.

To install Picard on Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy follow these steps:

Enable the universe repository, add them first
Install Picard with you favorite package manager
```
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install picard
```

To get MP3 tagging to work on Ubuntu (all other formats are OK), you need to

sudo apt-get install libtunepimp5-mp3

To install Picard 0.9 (PicardQt) on Ubuntu Gutsy follow these steps:

Add repository
```
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/luks/ubuntu gutsy main
```
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://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/users/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: