The debian packaging files can be found here: packaging/debian.
Debian and Ubuntu also ships xpra packages, though their stable versions are completely out of date, broken and unsupported, they should not be used.
For general information, see building.
The easiest way to install the build dependencies
is using the dev-env
build subcommand which will honour setup arguments. ie:
./setup.py dev-env --minimal --with-openh264
(available in xpra v6.1 onwards)
Alternatively, you can install these sets yourself:
Common dependencies
To be able to run xpra, you are likely to need:
apt-get install xvfb python3-cairo python3-gi-cairo \
python3-opengl python3-pil
X11
apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev libxres-dev \
libxkbfile-dev \
python3-dev \
pandoc \
libsystemd-dev \
liblz4-dev
These X11 utilities are usually required at runtime:
apt-get install xauth x11-xkb-utils
GTK3
GTK3 toolkit for the server and GUI client:
apt-get install libgtk-3-dev python3-dev python3-cairo-dev python-gi-dev cython3
Extra codecs
See picture codecs Basic picture codecs
apt-get install libturbojpeg-dev libwebp-dev python3-pil
for video support (x264 and vpx)
apt-get install libx264-dev libvpx-dev yasm
for using NVENC
apt-get install libnvidia-encode1 python3-numpy
HTML5 client
for more details, see html5 client
apt-get install uglifyjs brotli libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-ui gnome-backgrounds
Network layer
For more details, see network.
apt-get install python3-dbus python3-cryptography \
python3-netifaces python3-yaml
SSH:
apt-get install openssh-client sshpass python3-paramiko
misc extras
python libraries:
apt-get install python3-setproctitle python3-xdg python3-pyinotify python3-opencv
X11:
apt-get install libpam-dev quilt xserver-xorg-dev xutils-dev xserver-xorg-video-dummy xvfb keyboard-configuration
authentication modules
For more details, see authentication.
apt-get install python3-kerberos python3-gssapi
audio forwarding
See audio support and codecs
apt-get install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-alsa \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
Please make sure to remove any packages before installing from source.
./setup.py install --prefix=/usr --install-layout=deb
# the executable scripts may have been mangled, so overwrite them:
cp fs/bin/* /bin/
You may also need to export SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib
Install the packaging tools
apt-get install devscripts build-essential lintian debhelper pandoc
Build DEBs
git clone https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
cd xpra
debuild -us -uc -b
This builds fresh packages from git master. You can also use other branches, tags or download a source snapshot instead.