# Guide to build USD on Debian
**URL:** https://forum.aousd.org/t/guide-to-build-usd-on-debian/2674
**Category:** Build and Deployment
**Created:** [September 2, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/guide-to-build-usd-on-debian/2674 "2025-09-02T18:20:30Z")
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### Author:  [@charlesfleche](https://forum.aousd.org/u/charlesfleche)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/guide-to-build-usd-on-debian/2674/1 "2025-09-02T18:20:30Z")
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/](https://charlesfleche.net/building-usd-on-debian/)
I’m sharing it here as it might be useful for someone else.
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### Author:  [@dhruvgovil](https://forum.aousd.org/u/dhruvgovil)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/guide-to-build-usd-on-debian/2674/2 "2025-09-03T14:00:37Z")
Thanks for sharing, Charles!