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Asked: 2021-03-27 12:02:38 +0800 CST

Building xfce4-dockbarx-plugin from source: glib-2.0 not found

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Trying to follow these instructions: github, I get the following error in the log:

Checking for 'glib-2.0' >= 2.10
['/usr/bin/pkg-config', '--atleast-version=2.10', 'glib-2.0']
not found
from /home/zorath/xfce4-dockbarx-plugin-master: The configuration failed

The package appears to be present:

$ apt show libglib2.0-0
Package: libglib2.0-0
Version: 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.3
Priority: important
Section: libs
Source: glib2.0

At first I thought the author could have written glib-2.0 instead of glib2.0, but the string appears in the script several times and I'm pretty sure it will fail somewhere down the road if I just remove the hyphen.

Any advice?

20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    When building from source you have to install the development package of the package you need. In your case you have to install the libglib2.0-dev package. You can do that by running:

    sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev
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