Packaging

​How to build covers installing the required libraries and building from source, it is a pre-requisite for building packages.

Distribution Packages

And why you should generally not use them.

Distribution	Variant	Version Shipped	Known Issues
Ubuntu	​Precise aka 12.04	​0.0.7.36	Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 2 years, derelict
Ubuntu	​Saucy aka 13.10	​0.10.6	7 stable updates missing, version no longer supported, known crashes
Debian	​Squeeze Backports	​0.3.11	Too many to list and only available in backports! (backports a broken and out of date version!)
Debian	​Wheezy	​0.3.11	Far too many to list
Debian	​Jessie	​0.12.3	Good: up to date
Debian	​Sid	​0.12.3	Good: up to date
​Gentoo Stable		​0.8.8	branch no longer maintained - many serious bugs including total server crashes, "stable" - sigh
​Gentoo Testing		​0.12.3	Good: up to date
​Arch		​0.12.3	Good: up to date

Last updated 2014-04-23, when 0.12.3 was the latest version available.

Omitted:

• because (soon) out of date: Ubuntu Quantal, Ubuntu Raring.
• because not available with a default installation: Debian backports.
• Fedora: ​0.14.21 now available!
• opensuse: ​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...

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" and "testing" 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

Gentoo Ebuilds

You can find a generally up-to-date ebuild here ​/scripts (the ones in gentoo are somewhat behind the curve and fail to apply bug fixes in due time..).
The ebuilds for the released versions can be found here: ​http://www.xpra.org/dists/gentoo/