Building Budgie Desktop

Build Dependencies

budgie-desktop has a number of build dependencies that must be present before attempting configuration. The names are different depending on distribution. The following is a list of pkg-config dependencies currently required to build Budgie from source.

• accountsservice >= 0.6.40
• gio-2.0 >= 2.46.0
• gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.46.0
• gnome-bluetooth-1.0 >= 3.22.0
• gnome-desktop-3.0 >= 3.22.0
• gnome-settings-daemon >= 3.22.0
• gobject-2.0 >= 2.44.0
• gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 1.44.0
• gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.0
• ibus-1.0 >= 1.5.10
• libgnome-menu-3.0 >= 3.10.3
• libpeas-gtk-1.0 >= 1.8.0
• libpulse >= 2
• libwnck >= 3.14.0
• meson
• mutter >= 3.22.0
• polkit-agent-1 >= 0.110
• polkit-gobject-1 >= 0.110
• upower-glib >= 0.99.0
• uuid

And:

• vala >= 0.40.0
• gtk-doc (For documentation building from git only)
• sassc (to build theming)

Install build dependencies on Solus

sudo eopkg it glib2-devel libgtk-3-devel gtk-doc gnome-settings-daemon-devel libpeas-devel gobject-introspection-devel util-linux-devel pulseaudio-devel libgnome-menus-devel libgnome-desktop-devel gnome-bluetooth-devel mutter-devel polkit-devel libwnck-devel upower-devel accountsservice-devel ibus-devel vala meson sassc -c system.devel

Install build dependencies on Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt install gnome-settings-daemon-dev gtk-doc-tools intltool libaccountsservice-dev libgnome-bluetooth-dev libgnome-desktop-3-dev libgnome-menu-3-dev libgtk-3-dev libibus-1.0-dev libmutter-2-dev libpeas-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev libpulse-dev libupower-glib-dev libwnck-3-dev meson ninja-build sassc uuid-dev valac

Install build dependencies on Fedora

sudo dnf install accountsservice-devel git glib2-devel gnome-bluetooth-libs-devel gnome-desktop3-devel gnome-menus-devel gnome-settings-daemon-devel gobject-introspection-devel gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel gtk-doc gtk3-devel ibus-devel intltool json-glib-devel libX11-devel libXtst-devel libpeas-devel libuuid-devel libwnck3-devel meson mutter-devel polkit-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel sassc upower-devel vala

Cloning the repository

git clone https://github.com/budgie-desktop/budgie-desktop.git
cd budgie-desktop
git submodule init
git submodule update

Configuring

Solus

Solus has special requirements and mandates the use of stateless XDG paths, as well as using the OS default CFLAGS:

cd budgie-desktop
meson --prefix /usr --libdir /usr/lib64 --sysconfdir /etc -Dwith-stateless=true build --buildtype plain

All other distributions

cd budgie-desktop
meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

Building

ninja -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1)) -C build
sudo ninja install -C build

Note: When building a distro package, please ensure you use:

meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --buildtype plain

This ensures your distro flags are respected.