README.md

Building Xpra

Platform specific instructions:

Please refer to the instructions most appropriate for your build platform:

• Fedora, CentOS / RHEL
• Debian and Ubuntu
• MS Windows
• MacOS
• Others

Download the xpra source code

Use one of the following locations:

• github: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra and https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra-html5
• pypi: https://pypi.org/project/xpra/ (releases only)
• xpra.org: https://xpra.org/src/ (releases only)

Build

First, make sure that all the required dependencies are installed, then:

git clone https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
cd xpra
python3 ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr --single-version-externally-managed --root=/
cp fs/bin/xpra* fs/bin/run_scaled /usr/bin/

Caveats

• Do not mix source installation with binary packages. Remove one completely before installing the other
• Current versions of xpra require python3, for python2 use the 3.x LTS branch - see versions
• the last step installs xpra's own scripts, replacing the unusable ones mangled by setuptools