To install the latest stable version of Qtile on Ubuntu (newer than 20.04) and Debian 9:
pip install xcffib
pip install qtile
To install the git version see :ref:`installing-from-source`
Note: As of Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), the package has been outdated and removed from the Ubuntu's official package list.
Debian 11 comes with the necessary packages for installing Qtile. Starting from a minimal Debian installation, the following packages are required:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg xinit
sudo apt install libpangocairo-1.0-0
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-xcffib python3-cairocffi
Either Qtile can then be downloaded from the package index or the Github repository can be used, see :ref:`installing-from-source`:
pip install qtile