Building on Debian and Ubuntu

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For general information, see wiki/Building first.

Building

Starting with version 1.0, you no longer need to apply debian specific patches to build xpra.

Install the dependencies:

apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev \
                libxkbfile-dev \
	  	python-all-dev

• for python2 builds

  apt-get install python-gobject-2-dev python-gtk2-dev cython
  

• for python3 builds:

  apt-get install libgtk-3-dev python3-dev python3-cairo-dev python-gi-dev cython3
  

Make sure that your version of Cython is recent enough.

Also install some X11 utilities if not installed already:

apt-get install xauth x11-xkb-utils

Codecs:

• for video support (x264 and vpx), you should install:

  apt-get install libx264-dev libvpx-dev
  

• for using nvenc:

  apt-get install libnvidia-encode1
  

• with some versions, we use a private version of ffmpeg - see #1256 for details. If you wish to use your distribution's version of library instead, install:

  apt-get install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev
  

You may hit compilation errors if the version installed is too old. (and it often is)

• jpeg:

  apt-get install libturbojpeg-dev
  

• webp:

  apt-get install libwebp-dev
  

Optional:

• for html5 client:

  apt-get install uglifyjs brotli libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-ui gnome-backgrounds
  

• python2 opengl and rendering:

  apt-get install python-gtkglext1 python-opengl python-numpy python-pil 
  

• python3 opengl and rendering:

  apt-get install python3-opengl python3-numpy python3-pil
  

• python2 network bits:

  apt-get install python-rencode python-lz4 python-dbus python-cryptography \
      python-avahi python-netifaces python-yaml python-lzo
  

• python3 network bits:

  apt-get install python3-rencode python3-lz4 python3-dbus python3-cryptography \
      python3-avahi python3-netifaces python3-yaml python3-lzo
  

• misc python2:

  apt-get install python-setproctitle python-xdg python-pyinotify python-opencv \
      python-pycuda
  

• misc python3:

  apt-get install python3-setproctitle python3-xdg python3-pyinotify python3-opencv \
      python3-pycuda
  

• misc X11:

  apt-get install libpam-dev xserver-xorg-video-dummy xvfb keyboard-configuration
  

• authentication modules:

  apt-get install python-kerberos python-gssapi
  

• audio:

  apt-get install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-alsa \
      gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
      gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly python-gst-1.0
  

• for printing:

  apt-get install cups-filters cups-common cups-pdf python-cups
  

• for ssh:

  apt-get install openssh-client sshpass python-paramiko
  

Packaging

You can build a quick and dirty DEB package using:

cd trunk/src/
ln -sf ../debian .
debuild -us -uc -b