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
• gio-2.0 >= 2.46.0
• gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.46.0
• gnome-bluetooth-1.0 >= 3.18.0
• gnome-desktop-3.0 >= 3.18.0
• gobject-2.0 >= 2.44.0
• gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 1.44.0
• gtk+-3.0 >= 3.16.0
• ibus-1.0 >= 1.5.11
• libgnome-menu-3.0 >= 3.10.1
• libpeas-gtk-1.0 >= 1.8.0
• libpulse >= 2
• libwnck >= 3.14.0
• meson
• mutter >= 3.18.0
• polkit-agent-1 >= 0.110
• polkit-gobject-1 >= 0.110
• upower-glib >= 0.9.20
• uuid

And:

• vala >= 0.28
• gtk-doc (For documentation building from git only)

Install build dependencies on Solus

sudo eopkg it glib2-devel libgtk-3-devel gtk-doc 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
sudo eopkg it -c system.devel

Cloning the repository

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

Building

cd budgie-desktop
meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
cd build
ninja -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1))
sudo ninja install

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.