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Building

Platform specific index:

General Information

For running the *nix server, you will need Xvfb or Xdummy (if available for your platform), xauth, keyboard utilities and xauth.

Do not mix source installation with packages. Remove one completely before installing the other.

Switches

There are a number of build switches, which you can see with:

./setup.py --help

These should be auto-detected in most cases.

Many of those switches are related to picture encodings. On some platforms with older versions of libraries, it is possible, preferable and often mandatory to build static versions of the codecs. (see "--with-static*" flags)

Patching

There are a number of patches in the source tree that may need to be applied to build on some platforms to deal with library or tools compatibility.

In particular, many Debian versions require the "old-libav*" patches. Hopefully they will revisit their decision to ship the libav fork instead of ffmpeg proper.

Building with distutils

For installing into a local ./install directory as a normal user, simply run:

./setup.py install --home=./install

You then have to add the local installation directory to your PYTHONPATH whenever you want to use xpra:

PYTHONPATH=./install/lib*/python xpra ...

To install globally for all users via sudo:

rm -rf build install
sudo ./setup.py install

Uninstall

setuptools/distutils do not provide any uninstallation mechanism, this has nothing to do with Xpra. That said, it is generally enough to remove (but you must ensure that these are the correct files as you may damage your system otherwise!):

/usr/bin/xpra
/usr/lib*/python*/*-packages/xpra*
/usr/share/xpra

Fedora and [[Image(...)]] CentOS / RHEL

For building you will need to install:

yum install gcc python-devel libXtst-devel libXdamage-devel \
	  	gtk2-devel pygtk2-devel pygobject2-devel libxkbfile-devel

Fedora and RHEL7/CentOS7 users can install Cython via yum, our repositories also include a more up to date version of Cython for all versions.

yum install Cython

yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drv-dummy xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xkb-utils

For picture and video encoding support, install the private libraries and their development headers from the repository:

yum install ffmpeg-xpra-devel x264-xpra-devel libvpx-xpra-devel libwebp-devel

Building against the default (and often outdated) host libraries or using third-party repositories (EPEL, rpmfusion, etc) is not recommended.

When building against those private libraries, you must point the compiler and linker to their location, ie for 64-bit:

LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib64/xpra \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib64/xpra/pkgconfig \
    ./setup.py install

The spec files used for building all the packages found in the repositories can be found here: xpra/trunk/rpmbuild. More information on the private libraries setup can be found here: #613.

For OpenGL accelerated client rendering support, add:

yum install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL-accelerate pygtkglext

Debian and Ubuntu

For building you will need to install:

apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev \
                libxkbfile-dev \
	  	python-all-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev cython

If you encounter "errors on char [32] keys_return .. Expected ')'", then your version of Cython is probably too old, either upgrade it (from backports) or build it from source.

apt-get install xvfb xauth x11-xkb-utils

For x264 and vpx support, you should install:

apt-get install libx264-dev libvpx-dev libswscale-dev libavcodec-dev

openSUSE

For building you will need to install:

zypper install gcc python-cython python-devel \
		gtk2-devel python-gtk-devel python-gobject2-devel
zypper install libXrandr-devel libXtst-devel libXcomposite-devel 
zypper install xorg-x11-server-extra xorg-x11-xauth xkeyboard-config

No idea which ffmpeg libraries to use, sorry.