Building RPMs
August 8, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
You must enable the following repositories to be able to install all the build dependencies:
The spec file can be found here:
https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/tree/master/packaging/rpm/xpra.spec
The quick and easy way:
```shell
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ >& /dev/null
git clone https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
cd xpra
python3 ./setup.py sdist --formats=xz
cp dist/*xz patches/* ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
rpmbuild -ba ./packaging/rpm/xpra.spec
ls -s ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/*/
```
This builds fresh packages from git master. \
You can also use other branches, tags or download a [source release](https://xpra.org/src/) instead.
| Distributions | Dependency | Installation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL and clones | EPEL | dnf install epel-release | use epel-next-release on CentOS stream |
| RHEL and clones | Power Tools | dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools | also known as PowerTools on some variants / versions |
| RHEL 9 and clones | CRB | dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb | |
| All | rpmfusion | configuration |
dnf builddep xpra.spec
You may also refer to the more generic list of dependencies
Alternatively, if you want to install a more limited set of build dependencies,
you can use the dev-env build subcommand which will honour setup arguments. ie:
./setup.py dev-env --minimal --with-openh264
(available in xpra v6.1 onwards)
```shell python3 ./setup.py install ```