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Type:            article
Title:           Installing dependencies on Ubuntu
Project:         HandBrake
Project_URL:     https://handbrake.fr/
Project_Version: Latest
Language:        English
Language_Code:   en
Authors:         [ Bradley Sepos <bradley@bradleysepos.com> (BradleyS) ]
Copyright:       2020 HandBrake Team
License:         Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License_Abbr:    CC BY-SA 4.0
License_URL:     https://handbrake.fr/docs/license.html
---

Installing dependencies on Ubuntu
=================================

The following instructions are for [Ubuntu](https://www.ubuntu.com) 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) through 19.10 (Eoan Ermine).

Basic requirements to run commands:

- sudo (for normal user accounts)

Dependencies:

- autoconf
- automake
- autopoint
- build-essential
- cmake
- git
- libass-dev
- libbz2-dev
- libfontconfig1-dev
- libfreetype6-dev
- libfribidi-dev
- libharfbuzz-dev
- libjansson-dev
- liblzma-dev
- libmp3lame-dev
- libnuma-dev
- libogg-dev
- libopus-dev
- libsamplerate-dev
- libspeex-dev
- libtheora-dev
- libtool
- libtool-bin
- libvorbis-dev
- libx264-dev
- libxml2-dev
- libvpx-dev
- m4
- make
- nasm
- ninja-build
- patch
- pkg-config
- python
- tar
- zlib1g-dev

Additional dependencies for Ubuntu 18.10 and later:

- meson

Additional Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dependencies:

- python3-pip
- meson (via pip3)

Graphical interface dependencies:

- gstreamer1.0-libav
- intltool
- libappindicator-dev
- libdbus-glib-1-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgstreamer1.0-dev
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libgudev-1.0-dev
- libnotify-dev
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

Intel Quick Sync Video dependencies (optional):

- libva-dev
- libdrm-dev

Install dependencies.

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install autoconf automake autopoint build-essential cmake git libass-dev libbz2-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libharfbuzz-dev libjansson-dev liblzma-dev libmp3lame-dev libnuma-dev libogg-dev libopus-dev libsamplerate-dev libspeex-dev libtheora-dev libtool libtool-bin libvorbis-dev libx264-dev libxml2-dev libvpx-dev m4 make nasm ninja-build patch pkg-config python tar zlib1g-dev

If you are running Ubuntu 18.10 or later, install the additional dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install meson

If you are running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the `meson` package is too old. Install a newer version provided by the [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/).

    sudo apt-get install python3-pip
    sudo pip3 install meson

To build the GTK [GUI](abbr:Graphical User Interface), install the graphical interface dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav intltool libappindicator-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libnotify-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

To build with Intel Quick Sync Video support, install the QSV dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install libva-dev libdrm-dev

Ubuntu is now prepared to build HandBrake. See [Building HandBrake for Linux](build-linux.html) for further instructions.