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    <h1>Deployment</h1>

    <h2>Pre-packaged releases</h2>

    <p>
      The libvirt API is now available in all major Linux distributions
      so the simplest deployment approach is to use your distributions'
      package management software to install the <code>libvirt</code>
      module.
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    <h2>Self-built releases</h2>

    <p>
      libvirt uses GNU autotools for its build system, so deployment
      follows the usual process of <code>configure; make ; make install</code>
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    <pre>

      # ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
      # make
      # make install
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    <h2>Built from CVS / GIT</h2>

    <p>
      When building from CVS it is necessary to generate the autotools
      support files. This requires having <code>autoconf</code>,
      <code>automake</code>, <code>libtool</code> and <code>intltool</code>
      installed. The process can be automated with the <code>autogen.sh</code>
      script.
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    <pre>

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