= Building on Debian and Ubuntu =

[[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/debian.png)]] - [[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/ubuntu.png)]]

For general information, see [/wiki/Building] first.

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== Building ==
Starting with version 1.0, you no longer need to apply [/browser/xpra/trunk/debian/patches debian specific patches] to build xpra.

Install the dependencies:
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apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev \
                libxkbfile-dev \
	  	python-all-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev cython
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Make sure that your version of Cython is recent enough.

Also install some X11 utilities if not installed already:
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apt-get install xauth x11-xkb-utils
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And for video support (x264 and vpx), you should install:
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apt-get install libx264-dev libvpx-dev
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Note: starting with version 1.0, we use a private version of ffmpeg - see #1256 for details. If you wish to use your distribution's version of library instead, install:
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apt-get install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev
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You may hit compilation errors if the version installed is too old. (and it often is)
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== Packaging ==

You can build a quick and dirty DEB package using:
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cd trunk/src/
ln -sf ../debian .
debuild -us -uc -b
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