1) manual install while untared: perl MakeFile.PL make make test [optional] make install [as root if to install for all users] 2) install via CPAN perl -MCPAN -e shell install TagLib -------------------------------------------------- More to say about Build Due to some bugs(Refer to Bugs for detail) of the original release of TagLib version 1.4, some methods are not exported by default. You can check out the latest cvs build and re-install if possible. Then insert '-DFIXME' into the value of DEFINE in MakeFile.PL to enable the masked methods. The namespace TagLib::Ogg::Vorbis is only defined by 'DOXYGEN'. In case your libtag.so has symbols under that namespace, change '-DNO_DOXYGEN' to '-DDOXYGEN' in MakeFile.PL