Packaging

Please also see How to build and dependencies.

Distribution Packages

And why you should generally not use them.

Distribution	Variant	Version Shipped	Known Issues
Fedora	​Fedora 21 and 22	​0.15.9	Up to date (0.15.10 in "testing" queue), but you need ​rpmfusion's xpra-codecs-freeworld package to get all the codecs
Ubuntu	​Precise aka 12.04	​0.0.7.36	Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 4 years!
Ubuntu	​Trusty aka 13.04	​0.12.3	Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 2 years, avoid
Ubuntu	​Vivid aka 15.04	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Squeeze Backports	​0.3.11	Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian	​Wheezy	​0.3.11	Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian	​Wheezy-backports	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Jessie	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Jessie-backports	​0.14.30	Meh: 3 minor updates behind the LTS branch, no 0.15.x builds at all
Debian	​Stretch	​0.15.8	Not too bad: 2 minor updates behind
Gentoo	​Stable	​0.15.6	Not too bad: 4 minor updates behind
Gentoo	​Testing	​0.15.9	Good: only one minor update behind
​Arch		​0.15.9	Good: only one minor update behind

Last updated 2015-12-28, when 0.15.10 was the latest version available. (0.14.33 for LTS branch)

Omitted:

• because not available with a default installation: Debian experimental.
• opensuse: ​no packages available
• rant about Debian made redundant by this perfect description: ​Matthew Garrett: There's more than one way to exploit the commons

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Example of some of the fixes found in later 0.14.x and 0.15.x stable releases which may be missing from distributions that got stuck at a particular minor update (ie: 0.14.10 for Debian):

• important fixes: r10197 (abysmal performance), r10160, printing broken (r10165 + r10105 + r10142), nvenc (r10000 + r10078, also on Debian / Ubuntu: r10133), r10128, r10119, opencl broken (r10024 + r10084), win32 server (#637), win32 client fix (r9751), r9997, r9983, r9970, opengl crashes (r9924 + r9871?, r9799), r9888, r9851, compatibility fixes (r9857 + r9640), r9753, paint failures (r9682), r9711, r9715, shadow fix (r9728), may crash (r9725), no transparency (r9661), leak (r9654), r9620
• more minor fixes: r10196, r10139, r10104, r10046, r10029, r9996, r9978, r9868, r9898, r9915, r9796, r9770, r9803, r9694, r9727, r9675, r9609

You can find the full list of changes merged here: wiki/Versions/PendingFixes (under commit log).

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Non exhaustive list of bugs we would have backported to older branches if they were still maintained (mostly cumulative, the further back you go, the more you need):

• v0.13.x (most also apply if you're using Debian or Ubuntu's 0.14.10): r9354, r9415, r9418, r9441 (crash), r9589, r9621 (leak), r9671, r9753, #902 (r9826 - visual corruption), r9879, r9918, r9970, r8945, r9011 (leak), r9173 (race, connection errors), r8973 (races), r9003, r9003, r9005 (filtering ineffective), r8945, r8924 and r8917 (potential double free), r8788 (connection drops), r8777, r8749, r8708, r8659, r8445, r8442 (crash), r8278, r8227, r8185, r8135, r8079 (crash), r7979 (deadlock), r7524 (use disabled algorithms), r7408... and many many more
• v0.12.x: r6696, r7634, r6735, r6766, r6767, r6788, r6874 (memleak!), r6913, r6915, r7002, r7004, r7111 (leak), r7146 (deadlock), r7237 (connection failure), r7239 (crashes), #632, #588, #597, #284, #600, ...
• v0.11.x: r5842, r5898, r5899, r5900
• v0.10.x: r5207, r5209 + r5210, r5207
• v0.9.x: r4023, r4039 (and plenty more)

etc...

RPMs

The spec file can be found here: xpra.spec
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)

DEBs

You can find the debian packaging files here: /debian
Debian also ships packages, though the "stable" versions are completely out of date, broken and unsupported, they should not be used.
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