Dependencies

Dunst requires these libraries to compile.

• gdk-pixbuf-2.0
• glib-2.0
• gio-2.0
• pangocairo (provided by pango + cairo)
• 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 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.

Debian and Ubuntu

In general, on Debian and Debian-based distros (and many other binary based distros) you'll need also the *-dev packages.

apt install 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