So, you wanted to print your own barcodes? So did I and this page is collection of notes about it.

Reading barcodes

ZBar, project which used to be called zebra on sourceforce, but isn't any more

• start with code checkout and compilation

# dependencies
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

# checkout source
cd /rest/cvs
hg clone http://zbar.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/zbar
cd zbar
autoreconf --install

# compile
./configure --without-python
make

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