LinuxBuild.md

Xournal++ Linux Build

Install dependencies

Please create pull requests (or file issues) if you have more precise dependencies.

Lua is needed for plugins, if it is missing, the plugins will be disabled.

Arch

sudo pacman -S cmake gtk3 base-devel libxml2 cppunit portaudio libsndfile \
poppler-glib texlive-bin texlive-pictures gettext

For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

sudo dnf install cmake gtk3-devel libxml2-devel cppunit-devel portaudio-devel libsndfile-devel \
poppler-glib-devel texlive-scheme-basic texlive-dvipng 'tex(standalone.cls)' gettext

For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install cmake libgtk-3-dev libpoppler-glib-dev portaudio19-dev libsndfile-dev \
libcppunit-dev dvipng texlive libxml2-dev liblua5.3-dev

For OpenSuse:

sudo zypper install cmake gtk3-devel cppunit-devel portaudio-devel libsndfile-devel \
texlive-dvipng texlive libxml2-devel \
libpoppler-glib-devel

Basic steps are:

git clone http://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp.git
cd xournalpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Use cmake-gui .. to see graphically all available options.

With Cairo 1.16 PDF Bookmarks will be possible, but this Version is not yet common available, therefore the Cairo PDF Export is without PDF Bookmarks.

The binary executable will be in build/src/ subdirectory.

To install all needed files execute:

sudo make install