Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Problem with 2.99.1 installation

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Simon Thomson <simon thomson eluk co uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install the latest version of Rhythmbox 2.99.1 on Ubuntu
> 13.04 over the top of version 2.98 and when I try to configure the package
> downloaded from the GNOME ftp site, I get the following dependency errors:
>
> checking for RHYTHMBOX... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (          gobject-introspection-1.0
> > = 0.10.0           gtk+-3.0 >= 3.6.0                      x11
> gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.18.0              glib-2.0 >= 2.32.0
> gio-2.0 >= 2.32.0                      gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.32.0
> libsoup-2.4 >= 2.26.0                  libsoup-gnome-2.4 >= 2.26.0
> libpeas-1.0 >= 0.7.3                  libpeas-gtk-1.0 >= 0.7.3
> libxml-2.0 >= 2.7.8                  tdb >= 1.2.6
>  json-glib-1.0) were not met:
>
> No package 'libsoup-gnome-2.4' found
> No package 'libpeas-1.0' found
> No package 'libpeas-gtk-1.0' found
> No package 'tdb' found
> No package 'json-glib-1.0' found
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables RHYTHMBOX_CFLAGS
> and RHYTHMBOX_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
> I understand that this error can be solved by downloading the necessary
> packages, however all but  sudo apt-get install libsoup2.4-dev failed to
> locate the required packages.

The names you get from the configure script are pkg-config names, not
ubuntu package names (or those of any other distribution). You can
either figure out what the ubuntu package names are (apt-cache search
etc.) or just use 'apt-get build-dep rhythmbox' to do the work for
you.