Dependencies

Dunst requires these libraries to compile.

• gio-2.0
• gdk-pixbuf-2.0
• glib-2.0
• pangocairo
• libnotify (optional, for dunstify)
• wayland-client (optional, for wayland)
• wayland-cursor (optional, for wayland)
• x11 (optional, for xorg)
• xinerama (optional, for xorg)
• xext (optional, for xorg)
• xrandr (optional, for xorg)
• xscrnsaver (optional, for xorg)

Additionally, gdk-pixbuf has librsvg as an optional runtime dependency (for loading svg files).

Arch

Available from the AUR as dunst-git

Debian and Ubuntu

in general, on Debian and Debian-based distros you'll need also the *-dev packages.

libdbus-1-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev

Optional dunstify dependency

apt install libnotify-dev

Outdated sections

May be no longer relevant!

Fedora

dbus-devel libX11-devel libXrandr-devel glib2-devel pango-devel gtk3-devel libxdg-basedir-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libnotify-devel

Solus

Out of date, updates needed: Gtk2 was dropped in favour of gtk3

libcairo glibc libx11 libxinerama libxdg-basedir pango glib2 libxscrnsaver libxrandr-devel