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<h1>Downloads</h1>
<h2>Official Releases</h2>
<p>
The latest versions of the libvirt C library can be downloaded from:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li><li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li></ul>
<h2>Hourly development snapshots</h2>
<p>
Once an hour, an automated snapshot is made from the git server
source tree. These snapshots should be usable, but we make no guarantees
about their stability:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li><li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li></ul>
<h2>GIT source repository</h2>
<p> Libvirt code source is now maintained in a <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a> repository available on
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/">libvirt.org</a>:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git
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<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
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<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary</a>
</pre>
<h1>Installation</h1>
<h2>
<a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a>
</h2>
<p>As most UNIX libraries libvirt follows the "standard":</p>
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<code>gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code>
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<code>cd libvirt-xxxx</code>
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<code>./configure --help</code>
</p>
<p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p>
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<code>./configure [possible options]</code>
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<code>make</code>
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<code>make install</code>
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<p>At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
update your list of installed shared libs.
</p>
<h2>Building from a source code checkout</h2>
<p> The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a
checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in
templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra
arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and
install it into your home directory run:</p>
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./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
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