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libmusicbrainz - Client library for accessing data on the MusicBrainz server ChangeLog

Web site:

http://www.musicbrainz.org/

HOWTO

# libmusicbrainz 2.1.2
# ====================
# Prerequisites:
# gawk
# sed
# grep
# expat

cd
test -f installed/libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz &&
mv installed/libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz .
test ! -f libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz &&
wget http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz
mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "libmusicbrainz-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz
cd libmusicbrainz-2.1.2
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure
make

# Become root to install it
su

rm -f /usr/local/lib/libmusicbrainz.*
make install
ldconfig

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/libmusicbrainz-*.tar.*
mv libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz installed/