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Update: There are now official packages for Edgy . Therefore, this post and its content are now obsolete.

Picard is a great tool that automagically tags music files (be them mp3 or oggs) using an acoustic fingerprint and the big Musicbrainz database. It's as easy to use as dropping music files and letting it do the work. And it's especially great if you are a Last.fm user and want your files correctly tagged.

The Picard Linux installation page references Ubuntu packages, but unfortunately they are designed for Dapper and a slight glitch will prevent them from installing on Edgy: the python2.4-musicbrainz package has a dependency on python2.4-ctypes, while the correct package name on Edgy is python-ctypes. So I've just rebuilt this package, which allows to install the others.

So here are the steps to install picard 0.7 on Edgy:

1. Follow the instructions at http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardLinuxInstall to add the right feed.
2. Install the python2.4-musicbrainz dependencies:
   

   $ sudo apt-get install libmusicbrainz4c2a python-ctypes python

3. Download my python2.4-musicbrainz package and install it:
   

   $ wget http://gnurou.org/files/python2.4-musicbrainz2_0.3.1-1_all.deb
   $ sudo dpkg -i python2.4-musicbrainz2_0.3.1-1_all.deb

4. Finally, install picard:
   

   $ sudo apt-get install picard