Installing on Debian or Ubuntu

Note: As of Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), the package has been outdated and removed from the Ubuntu's official package list. Users are advised to follow the instructions of Installing From Source.

On other recent Ubuntu (17.04 or greater) and Debian unstable versions, there are Qtile packages available via:

sudo apt-get install qtile

On older versions of Ubuntu (15.10 to 16.10) and Debian 9, the dependencies are available via:

sudo apt-get install python3-xcffib python3-cairocffi

Debian 11 (bullseye)

Debian 11 comes with the necessary packages for installing Qtile. Starting from a minimal Debian installation, the following packages are required:

sudo apt install xserver-xorg xinit
sudo apt install libpangocairo-1.0-0
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-xcffib python3-cairocffi

Either Qtile can then be downloaded from the package index or the Github repository can be used, see Installing From Source:

pip install qtile