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).

NOTE: dunstctl uses the busctl for displaying rules and history. This command is usually provided by systemd. In systems without systemd this can be installed with elogind or basu.

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 librsvg-2.0

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Outdated sections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Out of date, updates needed: Gtk2 was dropped in favour of gtk3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