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[[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/package.png)]]
= Packaging =

[https://www.xpra.org/dev.html How to build] covers installing the required libraries and building from source, it is a pre-requisite for building packages.
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== Distribution Packages ==

And why you should generally not use them.

||=Distribution=||=Variant=||=Version Shipped=||=Known Issues=||
||Fedora||[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora 21 and 22]||[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xpra 0.15.2]||Up to date (0.15.3 in "testing" queue)||
||Ubuntu||[http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ Precise aka 12.04]||[http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/xpra 0.0.7.36]||Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 3.5 years!||
||Ubuntu||[http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ Trusty aka 13.04]||[http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/xpra 0.12.3]||Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 15 months, avoid||
||Ubuntu||[http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ Vivid aka 15.04]||[http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/xpra 0.14.10]||18 stable updates missing, version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes||
||Debian||[https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/ Squeeze Backports]||[https://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/xpra 0.3.11]||Too many to list and only available in backports! (backports a broken and out of date version!)||
||Debian||[https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ Wheezy]||[https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xpra 0.3.11]||Far too many to list||
||Debian||[https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ Jessie]||[https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xpra 0.14.10]||18 stable updates missing, version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes||
||Debian||[https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/ Stretch]||[https://packages.debian.org/sid/xpra 0.14.26]||Almost up to date||
||Gentoo||[http://www.gentoo.org/ Stable] ||[http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-wm/xpra 0.11.6]||branch no longer maintained - many serious bugs including total server crashes, "stable" - sigh||
||Gentoo||[http://www.gentoo.org/ Testing] ||[http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-wm/xpra 0.15.0]||Almost up to date, but missing some important fixes||
||||[https://www.archlinux.org/ Arch] ||[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xpra-winswitch/ 0.15.3]||Good: up to date||

Last updated 2015-07-21, when 0.15.3 was the latest version available. (0.14.27 for LTS branch)

Omitted:
* because (soon) out of date: Ubuntu Utopic.
* because not available with a default installation: Debian backports and experimental.
* opensuse: [http://software.opensuse.org/package/xpra no official packages]


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Non exhaustive list of bugs we would have backported to older branches if they were still maintained (cumulative, the further back you go, the more you need):
* {{{v0.11.x}}}: r5842, r5898, r5899, r5900
* {{{v0.10.x}}}: r5207, r5209 + r5210, r5207
* {{{v0.9.x}}}: r4023, r4039 (and plenty more)
etc... 
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[[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/rpm.png)]]
== RPMs ==
The spec file can be found here: [https://www.xpra.org/trac/browser/trunk/scripts/xpra.spec xpra.spec]
[[BR]]
The quick and easy way (tested on Fedora 20):
{{{
mkdir -p ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ >& /dev/null
cd trunk/src
./setup.py sdist --formats=bztar
cp dist/*bz2 ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp patches/* ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
rpmbuild -ba ../rpmbuild/xpra.spec --define 'Fedora 1'
ls -s ${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/*/
}}}
Shows:
{{{
1904 xpra-0.14.0-0.fc20.x86_64.rpm  2332 xpra-debuginfo-0.14.0-0.fc20.x86_64.rpm
}}}

You may need to add arguments to the rpmbuild command line to enable/disable certain features, or simply to get it to build properly on other RPM based distros.
For example, to build on {{{CentOS 6}}} with a different build no, use:
{{{
rpmbuild -ba xpra.spec --define 'build_no 5'
}}}
(the flags and their purpose may vary with versions, please refer to the spec file for more definitive information)
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== DEBs ==
You can find the debian packaging files here: [https://www.xpra.org/trac/browser/trunk/debian /debian]
[[BR]]
Debian also ships packages, though the "stable" and "testing" versions are completely out of date, broken and unsupported, they should '''not''' be used.
[[BR]]
Assuming that your build system is reasonably up to date, you should be able to build with:
{{{
cd trunk/src/
ln -sf ../debian .
debuild -us -uc -b
}}}
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