Installing on Debian or Ubuntu

To install the latest stable version of Qtile on Ubuntu (newer than 20.04) and Debian 9:

pip install xcffib
pip install qtile

To install the git version see Installing From Source

Note: As of Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), the package has been outdated and removed from the Ubuntu's official package list.

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