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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
    </pre>
        <p>
      It can also be browsed at
    </p>
        <pre>

      <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary</a>
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    <h1>Installation</h1>
    <h2>
      <a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a>
    </h2>
        <p>As most UNIX libraries libvirt follows the "standard":</p>
        <p>
          <code>gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code>
        </p>
        <p>
          <code>cd libvirt-xxxx</code>
        </p>
        <p>
          <code>./configure --help</code>
        </p>
        <p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p>
        <p>
          <code>./configure [possible options]</code>
        </p>
        <p>
          <code>make</code>
        </p>
        <p>
          <code>make install</code>
        </p>
        <p>At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
    update your list of installed shared libs.</p>
        </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>
        <pre>

      ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
      make
      make install
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