Setup your Keyman build environment on Ubuntu

Target Projects

On Linux, you can build the following projects:

Keyman for Linux
Keyman Core (Linux only) (aka common/core/desktop)

The following projects cannot be built on Linux because of outdated dependencies:

Keyman for Android
Keyman Core (wasm targets)
Common/Web (aka common/core/web)
KeymanWeb
Keyman for Windows
Keyman Developer
Keyman for macOS
Keyman for iOS

System Requirements

Minimum Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 18.04

Other Linux distributions will also work if appropriate dependencies are installed.

Repository Paths

Recommended filesystem layout:

$HOME/keyman/
  keyman/              this repository (https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman)
  keyboards/           https://github.com/keymanapp/keyboards
  sites/
    keyman.com/        https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman.com
    ...

Prerequisites

The current list of dependencies can be found in the Build-Depends section of linux/debian/control. They are most easily installed with the mk-build-deps tool:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install devscripts
sudo mk-build-deps --install linux/debian/control

Keyman for Linux

All dependencies are already installed if you followed the instructions under Prerequisites.

Building:

Building Keyman for Linux

Keyman Core