Binary Packages
Pre-compiled binary packages are provided by all major Linux and BSD distributions.
Basic knowledge of the respective package management tools is required and not within the scope of this wiki. Please refer to the documentation of the distribution you're using.
For a list of LXQt versions on various distributions, please check https://repology.org/project/lxqt-session/versions.
Note
If your distribution has an older package version, please do not report bugs on Github, but rather on their respective bug trackers. Consult "Building from Source" if you want the latest LXQt on such a distribution.
Arch Linux#
The stable release is available in community repo, packages' names are the same as upstream. A group lxqt exists and pulls all relevant ones.
Latest VCS code is provided in the AUR, packages' names are the same as upstream suffixed by -git.
Manjaro, EndeavourOs, CachyOs#
Nearly identical as Arch Linux.
Debian, Derivatives#
Debian#
LXQt is available in Debian's official repositories (LXQt 1.2.0 in Debian 12 "bookworm" and LXQt 2.1.x in Debian 13 "Trixie"). There are metapackages lxqt-core providing core features and lxqt providing LXQt as a whole plus some additional applications. See https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/discussions/2712 for LXQt 2.2 in Debian Trixie.
Ubuntu, Derivatives#
Official repositories#
LXQt is available in the official repositories as of Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" and later. The metapackages are the same as in Debian.
PPAs#
A ppa with LXQt 1.4.x packages for Ubuntu "Jammy Jellyfish" 22.04 LTS and 24.04 "Noble Numbat" is available,
Fedora#
LXQt is included in the official repositories. A corresponding group "lxqt" is available as well as a spin: https://fedoraproject.org/spins/lxqt .
FreeBSD#
LXQt is available in the official repositories. You can find information about installing here.
Gentoo#
LXQt stable releases are made available via the official Gentoo repository. You can find information about installing here.
Additionally, "live ebuilds" using git commits can be found from the Qt overlay.
Mageia#
A meta-package to install LXQt on Mageia's latest release can be found here.
openSUSE#
Stable versions are maintained in X11:LXQt and included in openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. LXQt can be installed via the LXQt pattern: zypper in -t pattern lxqt, or via clicking on the pattern in YaST Software or by installing every component individually. More information can be found in the openSUSE Wiki.
Git snapshots are available in X11:LXQt:git.