diff --git a/ubuntu20-04/piper/Dockerfile b/ubuntu20-04/piper/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:20.04
+
+WORKDIR /build/piper
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y build-essential git python3-dev python3-pip python-gi-dev gettext libcairo2-dev gtk-update-icon-cache desktop-file-utils
+
+RUN pip3 install meson ninja lxml evdev pycairo
+
+RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/libratbag/piper.git /build/piper
+
+RUN meson setup builddir --prefix=/usr
+RUN ninja -C builddir
+RUN ninja -C builddir install
+
+CMD ["sleep", "infinity"]
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diff --git a/ubuntu20-04/piper/build.sh b/ubuntu20-04/piper/build.sh
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+APP=piper
+
+CONTAINER="build-${APP}"
+ROOT="/build/${APP}"
+IMAGE="${CONTAINER}:latest"
+TARGET="~/bin"
+
+docker build -t "${IMAGE}" "${APP}" || exit 1
+docker run -d --name "${CONTAINER}" "${IMAGE}"
+
+sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/piper
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:/build/piper/piper" "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:${ROOT}/builddir/data/org.freedesktop.Piper.desktop" "/usr/share/applications"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:${ROOT}/builddir/data/org.freedesktop.Piper.appdata.xml" "/usr/share/metainfo"
+sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/piper
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:${ROOT}/builddir/data/piper.gresource" "/usr/share/piper"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:${ROOT}/builddir/data/piper.1" "/usr/share/man/man1"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:/build/piper/data/org.freedesktop.Piper.svg" "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:/build/piper/data/org.freedesktop.Piper-symbolic.svg" "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:/build/piper/builddir/piper" "/usr/bin"
+sudo docker cp "${CONTAINER}:${ROOT}/builddir/meson-private/python-3.8-installed.json" "/tmp"
+
+docker remove -f "${CONTAINER}"
+
+sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
+sudo update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications
+sudo python3 "${APP}/pycompile.py" /tmp/python-3.8-installed.json 0
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diff --git a/ubuntu20-04/piper/pycompile.py b/ubuntu20-04/piper/pycompile.py
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Copyright 2016 The Meson development team
+
+# ignore all lints for this file, since it is run by python2 as well
+
+# type: ignore
+# pylint: disable=deprecated-module
+
+import json, os, subprocess, sys
+from compileall import compile_file
+
+custom_env = {
+    "MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PY_PURELIB": '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/piper',
+    "MESON_INSTALL_PY_PURELIB": '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/piper',
+}
+
+quiet = int(os.environ.get('MESON_INSTALL_QUIET', 0))
+
+def compileall(files):
+    for f in files:
+        # f is prefixed by {py_xxxxlib}, both variants are 12 chars
+        # the key is the middle 10 chars of the prefix
+        key = f[1:11].upper()
+        f = f[12:]
+
+        ddir = None
+        fullpath = absf = custom_env['MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_'+key] + f
+        f = custom_env['MESON_INSTALL_'+key] + f
+
+        if absf != f:
+            ddir = os.path.dirname(f)
+
+        if os.path.isdir(absf):
+            for root, _, files in os.walk(absf):
+                if ddir is not None:
+                    ddir = root.replace(absf, f, 1)
+                for dirf in files:
+                    if dirf.endswith('.py'):
+                        fullpath = os.path.join(root, dirf)
+                        compile_file(fullpath, ddir, force=True, quiet=quiet)
+        else:
+            compile_file(fullpath, ddir, force=True, quiet=quiet)
+
+def run(manifest):
+    data_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), manifest)
+    with open(data_file, 'rb') as f:
+        dat = json.load(f)
+    compileall(dat)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    manifest = sys.argv[1]
+    run(manifest)
+    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+        optlevel = int(sys.argv[2])
+        # python2 only needs one or the other
+        if optlevel == 1 or (sys.version_info >= (3,) and optlevel > 0):
+            subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-O'] + sys.argv[:2])
+        if optlevel == 2:
+            subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-OO'] + sys.argv[:2])