Most of these dependencies should be installed automatically when you install official packages.
Unless otherwise stated, the dependencies are all optional.
Core Dependencies
Those are required by almost every component.
| Project | Source Download Link | Purpose | Client or Server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| glib | https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/ | low-level library | both | Required |
| gtk | http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/ | UI Toolkit | both | Required |
| pyopengl | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL-accelerate |
client OpenGL accelerated rendering | client | |
| pycups | https://pypi.org/project/pycups/ | Printing | both |
Network Layer
See Network
| Project | Source Download Link | Purpose | Client or Server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lz4 | https://github.com/lz4/lz4/releases | packet compression | both | Strongly recommended |
| aioquic | https://pypi.org/project/aioquic/ | low level network protocol | both | quic |
| python-cryptography | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cryptography | Encryption | both | |
| python-zeroconf | https://pypi.org/project/zeroconf/ | Multicast DNS session publishing and browsing | both | |
| python-netifaces | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces | Multicast DNS session publishing | server | |
| dbus-python | https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/ | desktop integration, server control interface | both | not applicable to MS Windows or Mac OSX |
| openssl | https://www.openssl.org/source/ | SSL | both | |
| paramiko | https://pypi.org/project/paramiko/ | ssh integration | both | |
| sshpass | https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/ | non-interactive SSH password authentication | usually client | |
| brotli | https://github.com/google/brotli/releases | HTML client compression | r15540 |
Authentication
| Project | Source Download Link | Purpose | Client or Server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-gssapi | https://pypi.org/project/gssapi/ | GSSAPI | server | #1691 |
| python-kerberos | https://pypi.org/project/kerberos/ | Kerberos | server | #1691 |
| python-ldap | https://pypi.org/project/python-ldap/ | LDAP | server | #1691 |
| python-ldap3 | https://pypi.org/project/ldap3/ | LDAP v3 | server | #1691 |
| pyu2f | https://pypi.org/project/pyu2f/ | U2F | server | #1789 |
Python modules
Encodings
| Project | Source Download Link | Purpose | Client or Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| x264 | ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/ | h264 encoding | server |
| vpx | http://downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webm/index.html | vp8 and vp9 codecs | both |
| webp | http://downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/index.html | webp codec | both |
| libpng | ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng16/ | png encoding | both |
| libspng | https://libspng.org/download/ | faster png encoding | both |
| libjpeg-turbo | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo/files/ | jpeg encoding | both |
| python-pillow | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow | png,jpeg,webp encoding and decoding, format conversion - Required | both |
| libyuv | https://chromium.googlesource.com/libyuv/libyuv/ | Colourspace Conversion | both |
| pycuda | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycuda | NVENC | server |
| cuda | https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit | NVENC | server |
| pyNVML | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nvidia-ml-py/ | NVENC | server |
Audio
See audio forwarding
| Project | Source Download Link | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| gstreamer | http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/ | audio framework |
| Ogg | http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/ | ogg container format |
| opus | http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/ | opus codec |
| Flac | http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/ | flac codec |
| Speex | http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/ | speex codec |
| Vorbis | http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/ | vorbis codec |
| wavpack | http://www.wavpack.com/downloads.html | wavpack codec |
| faac | https://github.com/knik0/faac/releases | aac encoder |
| faad | https://github.com/knik0/faad2/releases | aac decoder |
| lame | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/ | MP3 encoder |
| TwoLame | http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/files/twolame/ | MP3 encoder |
