This page may well be out of date, as these platforms are not officially supported.
To install xpra using ports, just run:
cd /usr/ports/x11/xpra
make install clean
These instructions are incomplete and outdated - feel free to update them!
The Xvfb tool can be found in the package: xorg-vfbserver
(not obvious!) Other packages you will need: * for running it: xauth xkbcomp xkeyboard-config
* for building / downloading the source: gcc cython subversion pkgconf
* X11 libraries: libXrandr libXtst libXcomposite libXdamage
* GTK: gobject-introspection gtk3
* strongly recommended addons: py37-lz4 py37-rencode py37-PyOpenGL py37-PyOpenGL-accelerate
* audio: py37-gstreamer1 gstreamer1-plugins-flac gstreamer1-plugins-mad gstreamer1-plugins-ogg gstreamer1-plugins-opus gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis
These instructions are based on this mailing list post: XPRA - installation on Orange PI Plus 2E running an Ubuntu Xenial variant:
clean up potentially conflicting packages:
apt-get purge xpra
install the development packages (very similar to other Debian):
apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev \
libxkbfile-dev python-all-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev \
libx264-dev libvpx-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev \
xvfb xauth x11-xkb-utils \
zlib1g zlib1g-dev liblzo2-2 liblzo2-dev
some system-supplied Python tools may just be too old, so get new ones directly from the world of Python:
apt-get install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install lz4
The system version of ffmpeg is too old, so compile a new one from source. The build flags used here disable most features and only keep what is actually needed by xpra - you may want to keep more features enabled if you also intend to use the ffmpeg libraries for another purpose:
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.3.2.tar.bz2
tar -jxf ffmpeg-4.3.2.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-4.3.2
LDPATH=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf ./configure \
--enable-runtime-cpudetect \
--disable-avdevice \
--enable-pic \
--disable-zlib \
--disable-filters \
--disable-everything \
--disable-doc \
--disable-programs \
--disable-libxcb \
--enable-libx264 \
--enable-libvpx \
--enable-gpl \
--enable-protocol=file \
--enable-decoder=h264 \
--enable-decoder=hevc \
--enable-decoder=vp8 \
--enable-decoder=vp9 \
--enable-decoder=mpeg4 \
--enable-encoder=libvpx_vp8 \
--enable-encoder=libvpx_vp9 \
--enable-encoder=mpeg4 \
--enable-encoder=libx264 \
--enable-encoder=aac \
--enable-muxer=mp4 \
--enable-muxer=webm \
--enable-muxer=matroska \
--enable-muxer=ogg \
--enable-demuxer=h264 \
--enable-demuxer=hevc \
--enable-demuxer=m4v \
--enable-demuxer=matroska \
--enable-demuxer=ogg \
--enable-shared \
--enable-debug \
--disable-stripping \
--disable-symver \
--enable-rpath
make
make install
to be able to use most of xpra’s features, you may also want to install:
apt-get install python-netifaces dbus-x11 python-dbus python-rencode \
hicolor-icon-theme python-avahi python-numpy \
gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-tools \
python-pil python-lzo python-setuptools
build xpra version 3.x from source as per wiki
These instructions are valid for Raspbian Stretch and are based on this gist: Installing Xpra on a Raspberry Pi from Source. (which uses an outdated version)
build dependencies:
apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxcomposite-dev \
libxdamage-dev libxkbfile-dev xauth x11-xkb-utils xserver-xorg-video-dummy \
python-all-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev cython \
libx264-dev libvpx-dev node-uglify yui-compressor
A decent set of runtime dependencies:
apt-get install python-lz4 python-cryptography
pip install pyopengl pyopengl-accelerate rencode \
netifaces websocket-client websockify pillow
build xpra from source as per wiki
Because of the Raspberry Pi’s limited power, getting an answer from displayfd
might take more than the ten seconds specified as the standard timeout. In order to change this, you can start xpra like this:
xpra start --env=XPRA_DISPLAY_FD_TIMEOUT=30 ...
Alternatively, always specify a display when use the xpra start
subcommand.