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Packaging Guide

This page is directed at distributions, packagers and developers.

Please contact us if there is anything unclear / out of date / missing.

For license & copyright information see License & Contributors

Existing Packaging

The following distributions package Quod Libet:

The Ubuntu PPA / unstable repo builds are automated by the following scripts:

https://github.com/lazka/quodlibet-ppa

Non-Optional Runtime Dependencies

The following software is needed to start Ex Falso or Quod Libet.

  • Python (2.7)
  • PyGObject including cairo support (>= 3.2)
  • pycairo
  • mutagen (>= 1.27)
  • GTK+ (>= 3.2)
  • On Windows only: pywin32
  • On OS X only: PyObjC

For icons a complete icon theme is needed, preferably with symbolic icons. For example adwaita-icon-theme or the older gnome-icon-theme + gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

For playback support in Quod Libet one of the following two is needed:

GStreamer

Required:
  • GStreamer (>= 1.0) + typelibs
  • GStreamer Plugins Base: Vorbis, Alsa, ...
Optional but recommended:
  • GStreamer Plugins Good: Pulseaudio, FLAC, Jack, ...
  • GStreamer Plugins Ugly: MP3 (mad), ...
  • GStreamer Plugins Bad: MP3 (mpg123), MP4, Opus, ...
  • GStreamer libav/ffmpeg: WMA, ...

Xine

  • xine-lib 1.1 or 1.2 (the shared library, no Python bindings)

Optional Runtime Dependencies

dbus-python:
  • Enables the DBus interface
  • Multimedia key support under GNOME
pyhook (Windows only):
  • Multimedia key support under Windows
libkeybinder-3.0 + typelib:
  • Multimedia key support under non Gnome setups
libgpod4 (the shared library, no Python bindings):
  • iPod support
libgtksourceview-3 + typelib:
  • Undo/Redo support for multiline text fields
media-player-info:
  • For detection of DAPs
udisks or udisks2:
  • For detection of DAPs
python-feedparser:
  • For the feed browser
libmodplug1:
  • For MOD support

Plugin Dependencies

All plugin dependencies are optional and will only prevent the corresponding plugin from loading.

notification-daemon (or any other implementation of the dbus spec):
  • For the notification plugin
python-musicbrainz2:
  • For the musicbrainz plugin
GStreamer Plugins Good:
  • For the replaygain plugin
GStreamer Plugins Bad:
  • For the acoustid plugin
python-cddb:
  • For the CDDB plugin
python-dbus:
  • “Browse Folders”
  • Screensaver plugins
  • uPnP server
  • Gnome search provider
  • gajim status updater
  • MPRIS
  • ...
rygel:
  • The uPnP media server
Zeitgeist Python bindings:
  • For the zeitgeist plugin
pynotify:
  • For the auto library update plugin
webkitgtk (== 3.0) + typelibs:
  • For the Lyrics Window plugin

Build Dependencies

  • Python 2.7 (stdlib only)
  • gettext >= 0.15 and intltool for translations.

For user documentation setup.py build_sphinx can be used to create the HTML user guide and put it in the build directory in the sphinx subdirectory. This is not part of the default build process and requires sphinx.

Changes

3.4 → 3.5

  • Mutagen 1.27 required

3.3 → 3.4

  • The main repo moved from Mercurial (Google Code) to Git (GitHub)
  • The build should now be reproducible
  • gtk-update-icon-cache is no longer a build dependency
  • gettext >= 0.15 is required now at build time
  • A complete icon theme is now required (this was also partly the case with 3.3) and an icon theme including symbolic icons is recommended. adwaita-icon-theme provides both for example.
  • Mutagen 1.22 required, Mutagen 1.27 recommended
  • New files installed to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
  • quodlibet.desktop now contains a MimeType entry, which means calling update-desktop-database is needed after package installation.

3.2 → 3.3

  • New optional plugin dependency: webkitgtk-3.0 + typelibs
  • Mutagen 1.27 recommended

3.1 → 3.2

  • Plugins got merged into Quod Libet. This means the quodlibet-plugins tarball is gone and plugins will be installed by setup.py install. For distros that used to include the plugins in the main package this means all plugin related packaging code can simply be removed. For distros that offered separate packages the installation can be split by packaging quodlibet/ext in a separate package. Quod Libet can run without it.
  • UDisks2 is supported, in addition to UDisks1
  • Python 2.7 required instead of 2.6 (might still work, but not tested)

3.0 → 3.1

  • No changes compared to 3.0