Guide to build USD on Debian

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I run Debian at home. Turns out that USD is not trivial to build and run on the new Debian 13 trixie:

  • the USD build script makes a distribution that has tbb confused at runtime (my guess is that it builds against system TBB, but link with "build script TBB” at runtime, or the opposite, I haven’t investigated this)
  • USD needs to be patched to build the Qt ui with uic , as the pyside wrapper script does not exist on Debian
  • there is currently a Debian OpenSubdiv packaging bug that needs to be worked around

For my own reference I’ve written a guide to build USD on Debian: https://charlesfleche.net/building-usd-on-debian/

I’m sharing it here as it might be useful for someone else.

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Thanks for sharing, Charles!

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