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Pre-built Binaries

Pre-built binaries are provided for the following distributions. Please be aware that their versions may not always match the latest Louvre release.

• Arch : louvre - Thanks to @TrialnError.
• Fedora : cuarzo-louvre - By Cuarzo Software (always up to date).
• NixOS : louvre - Thanks to Marco Rebhan.

Manual Building

Louvre relies on the following libraries:

• wayland-server >= 1.20.0
• gl >= 1.2
• egl >= 1.5
• glesv2 >= 3.2
• libdrm >= 2.4.113
• srm >= 0.11.0
• libudev >= 249
• libinput >= 1.20.0
• xcursor >= 1.2.0
• xkbcommon >= 1.4.0
• pixman-1 >= 0.40.0
• libseat >= 0.6.4

Wayland backends require:

• wayland-client >= 1.20.0
• wayland-egl >= 18.1.0

And the examples require:

• iccu >= 72.1
• fontconfig >= 2.13.1
• freetype2 >= 24.1.18

And can easily be built with Meson.

Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, etc)

If your distribution is based on Debian, all tools and almost all dependencies can be installed with the following commands:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install build-essential meson libegl-dev mesa-common-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libdrm-dev libevdev-dev libinput-dev libxcursor-dev libxkbcommon-dev libpixman-1-dev libwayland-dev hwinfo libseat-dev libicu-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype-dev

To install SRM, follow the instructions provided here.

It is also recommended to install weston-terminal, which is compatible with Wayland and is used throughout the tutorial and the examples.

$ sudo apt install weston

Red Hat (Fedora, CentOS, etc)

If your distribution is based on Red Hat, all tools and almost all dependencies can be installed with the following commands:

$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo dnf install @development-tools make automake gcc gcc-c++ meson libwayland-client libwayland-server wayland-devel libinput-devel libevdev-devel libudev-devel mesa-libEGL-devel libxkbcommon-devel libXcursor-devel pixman-devel libdrm-devel libseat-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libicu-devel

To install SRM, follow the instructions provided here.

It is also recommended to install weston-terminal which is compatible with Wayland and is used throughout the tutorial and the examples.

$ sudo dnf install weston

Building Louvre

Run the following commands to compile and install Louvre:

$ git clone https://github.com/CuarzoSoftware/Louvre.git
$ cd Louvre/src
$ meson setup build
$ cd build
$ meson install
$ sudo ldconfig

To ensure that everything is functioning correctly, you can test one of the available examples.