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The new jbrout 0.3 release is now hosted on :

[http://code.google.com/p/jbrout/]

This old 0.2.X release will not be maintained anymore

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Here are informations about the sources of jBrout, the svn version.

Install from sources/svn

jBrout needs :

• python >=2.4
• lxml, pythonic bindings for libxml2 and libxslt.
• pygtk >=2.6, bindings for gtk+ toolkit
• a plugin of jBrout, "instantWeb" needs PIL.

Lxml doesn't have official package yet. You can build it from the source by following this process. Or you can get theses contrib package :

• On windows : lxml0.7-win32
• On debian/ubuntu : python2.4-lxml-0.7
• On Rpm distros : python2.4-lxml-0.7 (it seems it doesn't work well for mandriva)

otherwise, you should find all on on PyPi/CheeseShop

to get the SVN sources, you'll need SVN to do (here is a tar.gz):

svn co http://svn.jbrout.python-hosting.com/trunk jbrout

Jbrout tools/libs

jBrout use some external tools.

• on Win32 systems : they are provided in the tools folder.
  • Jhead of Matthias Wandel (Public domain). Which is used to extract exif information of pictures, and exif-redate pictures.
  • Jpegnail of photomolo from Marko Mäkelä (GPL licence). Which is used to rebuild internal exif thumbnail on win32 platform.
  • Jpegtran of Jpeg Club(public Domain). Which is used to rotate loss-less pictures on win32 platform.
• on *nix systems, you should install them ! So, please, install them for your distribution :
  • Exiftran of Gerd Knorr (GPL licence). (also known as "fbida package")
  • Jhead of Matthias Wandel (Public domain).

jBrout sources comes with external python libs, located in libs folder :

• EXIF.py from Gene Cash (GPL licence)
• iptcinfo.py from Tamás Gulácsi (GPL licence)