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Download Xpra

Official installers and package repositories for every supported platform and release channel.

Platform Downloads and installation
Microsoft Windows EXE, MSI, and portable ZIP bundles
macOS PKG and DMG bundles for Intel and Apple silicon
Linux Automated setup, RPM repositories, and Debian repositories

Downloads are available for all supported platforms. For most use cases, client and server can run any supported Xpra version.

Download channels

Three repositories track different release streams:

  • LTS contains the v5.1.x long-term support releases.
  • stable tracks the latest branch from the v6.x series.
  • beta contains the newest builds.

See Build Status for availability by distribution, architecture, and channel.

Source downloads

Source code is available from the GitHub repository and as release snapshots:

Signatures

All binary downloads are signed with the Xpra PGP key, key ID F18AD6BB. Its fingerprint is B499 3B57 3231 48E3 7977 E5D8 7325 4CAD 1797 8FAF.

For rather tedious reasons, you may need to import two almost identical versions of this key to use the repositories on Debian systems.

Build types

Windows and macOS bundles include dozens of libraries and come in two variants:

Build type Contents
Light Lower disk usage with more limited codec support
Full All codecs and server support; considerably larger

Microsoft Windows

Formats, architectures, signatures, and unattended installation

Installation formats

The Microsoft Windows download directories (LTS, stable and beta) contain for each architecture:

Format Purpose
EXE General purpose installer
MSI alternative installer for unattended installations
ZIP local installation without administrative rights, missing file association

Architectures

Both x86_64 (aka AMD64 or x64) and arm64 are fully supported, but arm64 builds has more limited hardware support.

Signatures and SBOMs

  • signature the signatures can be verified using GPG, see details above
  • sbom the sbom files uses the cyclonedx JSON file format, these files may be slightly incomplete for non-Light builds

Unattended installations

Windows download links

Light builds

Architecture Channel EXE Download MSI Download ZIP Download SBOM
x86_64 LTS Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom
arm64 LTS Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom
x86_64 stable Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom
arm64 stable Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom
x86_64 beta Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom
arm64 beta Xpra-Light_Setup.exe signature Xpra-Light.MSI authentication icon Xpra-Light.zip authentication icon sbom

Full builds

Channel EXE Download MSI Download ZIP Download SBOM
LTS Xpra_Setup.exe signature Xpra.MSI authentication icon Xpra.zip authentication icon sbom
stable Xpra_Setup.exe signature Xpra.MSI authentication icon Xpra.zip authentication icon sbom
beta Xpra_Setup.exe signature Xpra.MSI authentication icon Xpra.zip authentication icon sbom

Alternatives

  • you can also install xpra using MSYS2 by running pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-xpra. There are downsides to this installation method: no nvidia codecs or file association. You can control some of the components and dependencies manually, though this is not easy
  • build from source
  • html5 client

macOS

Download formats

The macOS download directories (LTS, stable and beta) contain:

Format Purpose
PKG Structured package format: preferred, will install file association
DMG Disk Image: general purpose installer
macOS download links

The latest builds for each MacOS download channel (LTS, stable and beta) are:

Light builds

(only available with the arm64 beta channel for now)

Architecture Format LTS Download Stable Download Beta Download
arm64 DMG n/a n/a Xpra-Light.dmg signature
arm64 PKG n/a n/a Xpra-Light.pkg signature

Full builds

Architecture Format LTS Download Stable Download Beta Download
x86_64 DMG Xpra.dmg signature Xpra.dmg signature Xpra.dmg signature
x86_64 PKG Xpra.pkg signature Xpra.pkg signature Xpra.pkg signature
arm64 DMG Xpra.dmg signature Xpra.dmg signature Xpra.dmg signature
arm64 PKG Xpra.pkg signature Xpra.pkg signature Xpra.pkg signature

These macOS packages are not notarized. See Can't you just right click? for installation guidance.

🔴 If MacOS complains that the application is damaged, run:
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Xpra.app

Linux

For Fedora, RHEL and its derivatives, Debian, and Ubuntu, install the repository automatically with:

curl https://xpra.org/get-xpra.sh | bash

Alternatively, run the setup from a source checkout:

git clone https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
cd xpra
./setup.py install-repo

Then you can just install xpra using your package manager.
To install the beta or lts channels, use the install-beta-repo or install-lts-repo subcommands instead.

Sub-packages

Starting with version 6, xpra packages make extensive use of sub-packages.

As long as you avoid buggy downstream packages, installing xpra using your package manager should install the client and server components as well as most picture codecs and audio support.

Repository contents

The repositories contain more than just the xpra packages themselves.

Dependencies

Many distributions do not ship all of the libraries that xpra needs, or only ship versions which are too old, or built without the features required.
Those dependencies are rebuilt and shipped from the same repositories, so that installing xpra pulls in everything it needs without having to install anything by hand.

Which dependencies have to be provided varies from one distribution to another - and even between different releases of the same distribution:

  • Fedora already provides almost everything, so only a handful of packages are added
  • the RHEL clones (AlmaLinux, RockyLinux, OracleLinux, CentOS Stream) need many more, and the version 9 builds also target a newer interpreter (python3.12) than the system python3.9, which means that every Python module has to be rebuilt for it
  • AlmaLinux 10 also needs codec libraries that Fedora can get from rpmfusion
  • Debian and Ubuntu need very few extra packages
Examples of packages provided

Python modules built for at least some of the supported distributions:

Package(s) Used for
python3-aioquic, python3-pylsqpack QUIC transport
python3-pycuda, python3-pynvml NVIDIA hardware accelerated encoders
python3-pyopengl client OpenGL rendering
python3-fido2, python3-pyu2f authentication modules
python3-pillow, python3-numpy picture encodings
python3-cairo, pygobject3, python3-pyxdg, python3-dbus GTK client and server
python3-uinput virtual input devices
python3-cython, python3-setuptools, python3-wheel build time only

Other components:

Package(s) Used for
openh264, libyuv video encoding and colourspace conversion
xorg-x11-drv-dummy / xserver-xorg-video-dummy the patched dummy driver used by seamless and desktop servers
gstreamer1-plugin-timestamp GStreamer plugin used for extracting monotonic timestamps from audio buffers

The exact list of packages built for each RPM target, and the order in which they are built, can be found in packaging/rpm/distros.

Because these packages are built specifically for xpra, they may be more recent than the ones from your distribution and your package manager will usually prefer them.

Other Xpra-org projects

The same repositories also provide other projects from Xpra-org:

Package Project Description
xpra-html5 xpra-html5 the HTML5 client served by the server's web server - usually installed with xpra as a recommended package
go-xpra go-xpra minimal client written in Go
rust-xpra rust-xpra client written in Rust

These clients are lightweight alternatives to the regular Python client - see the client feature comparison for details.

RPM distributions

RPM repository setup and download links
  1. Download the chosen repository file (stable, lts, or beta) into /etc/yum.repos.d as root. For example, on Fedora:
# also available:
# REPO="xpra-lts"
# REPO="xpra-beta"
REPO="xpra"
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/xpra.repo https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xpra-org/xpra/master/packaging/repos/Fedora/${REPO}.repo
  1. Install Xpra with dnf install xpra.
Distribution LTS Repository file Stable Repository file Beta Repository File Extra Notes
Fedora xpra-lts.repo xpra.repo xpra-beta.repo
AlmaLinux xpra-lts.repo xpra.repo xpra-beta.repo enable crb and EPEL
RockyLinux xpra-lts.repo xpra.repo xpra-beta.repo enable crb and EPEL
OracleLinux xpra-lts.repo xpra.repo xpra-beta.repo enable codeready_builder and EPEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux use AlmaLinux repository use AlmaLinux repository use AlmaLinux repository
CentOS use AlmaLinux repository use AlmaLinux repository use AlmaLinux repository
CentOS Stream xpra-lts.repo xpra.repo xpra-beta.repo

Starting with version 5, the RPM packages depend on rpmfusion packages for some codecs, RHEL and clones also depend on EPEL packages.
To enable crb: dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
You can also build your own RPM packages. Unreleased distributions (ie: Fedora Rawhide) should use the beta repositories, your mileage may vary.

Debian-based distributions

Debian repository setup and download links
  1. Ensure the SSL certificates are up to date: sudo apt install ca-certificates
  2. Import the package-signing key:
sudo wget -O "/usr/share/keyrings/xpra.asc" https://xpra.org/xpra.asc

(if the file already exists, you may hit some problems ) 3. Download the appropriate repository file from the table below into /etc/apt/sources.list.d as root:
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d ; wget $REPOFILE 4. Run apt update ; apt install xpra.

Distribution LTS Repository File Stable Repository File Beta Repository File
Debian Bullseye xpra-lts.sources not available xpra-beta.sources
Debian Bookworm xpra-lts.sources xpra.sources xpra-beta.sources
Debian Trixie xpra-lts.sources xpra.sources xpra-beta.sources
Debian Forky (*) use beta only (*) use beta only xpra-beta.sources
Debian Sid (*) use beta only (*) use beta only xpra-beta.sources
Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish xpra-lts.sources xpra.sources xpra-beta.sources
Ubuntu Noble Nombat xpra-lts.sources xpra.sources xpra-beta.sources
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon xpra-lts.sources xpra.sources xpra-beta.sources

The DEB repositories may require the "universe" repository source to be activated to get all the features.
(*) Distributions that do not provide a stable ABI should enable the beta repository.
(*) Older distributions can only run xpra 5.x and not later versions.

Example: install the stable repository on Ubuntu Noble Numbat

Execute these commands as root (ie: using `sudo):

DISTRO="noble"
# other options:
# REPO="xpra-lts"
# REPO="xpra-beta"
REPO="xpra"
# install https support for apt (which may be installed already):
apt update
apt install apt-transport-https software-properties-common
apt install ca-certificates
# add xpra GPG key:
wget -O "/usr/share/keyrings/xpra.asc" https://xpra.org/xpra.asc
# add the xpra repository:
wget -O "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/$REPO.sources" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xpra-org/xpra/master/packaging/repos/$DISTRO/$REPO.sources
# install the xpra package:
apt update
apt install xpra

For other distributions or variants, simply change DISTRO to match your distribution name.

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