Picard Qt/Mac Install Guide

This page is outdated, some of the steps are not required anymore, some are changed.

Notes

• CAUTION: Proceed at your own risk. This isn't official yet and is not supported. This document is provided purely for informational purposes and should not be used if you don't know what you're doing.

Installation Steps

Python

• download and open python-2.5.1c1-macosx.dmg [17.9 MB]
• run MacPython.mpkg and install Python

Qt4

• download and install ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.2.3.dmg [54.0 MB]

PyQt4

• download and extract sip-4.6.tar.gz [400 kB]

python configure.py  
make
sudo make install

• download and extract PyQt-mac-gpl-4.2.tar.gz [5.4 MB]

sudo python configure.py 
sudo make
sudo make install

Mutagen

• download and extract mutagen-1.10.1.tar.gz [484 kB]

python setup.py build 
sudo python setup.py install

LibDiscID

• download and extract libdiscid-0.1.1.tar.gz [325 kB]

./configure 
make
sudo make install

Expat2

• download and extract expat-2.0.0.tar.gz [450 kB]

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
// I'm not sure why this is needed; it's working fine for me with the default Makefile; and, on the contrary, LibOfa compilation fails if I rename the library name. Leaving this in in case someone does need it though...
// vi Makefile
// *change ''LIBRARY = libexpat.la'' to ''LIBRARY = libexpatw.la'', save and quit (Esc, w, q, Enter)
make buildlib
sudo make installlib

LibOfa

• download and extract libofa-0.9.3.tar.gz (direct link) [376 kB]
• download and extract libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz [2.8 MB]
• copy ltmain.sh from the libtool dir to the libofa dir (overwrite)
• (if you tried configuring libofa without copying the libtool's ltmain.sh file, run make clean]

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
make
sudo make install

ffmpeg

• You need either Fink or SVN to install ffmpeg. Instructions here: http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/ffmpeg-howto.html

gettext

You need gettext for the localization support when compiling PicardQT

wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.16.tar.gz
tar -xzvf gettext-0.16.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

PicardQt

• download and extract the latest PicardQT version (currently picard-0.9.0alpha8.tar.gz)

python setup.py config -I /usr/local/include/ofa1/ -I /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/
rm po/*.po
python setup.py install

And from now just type picard to run the app!

Discussion /Help

• Does anyone know how to make a shortcut in OS-X to run the picard terminal command? --AaronCooper

Contributions

• HUGE thanks to luks and warp in #musicbrainz for their help throughout this process.