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Reputation: 49

How to install glib2.64 on Ubuntu 16.04

I have Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS and installed glib version returned by pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 is 2.48.2.

I want to install latest glib 2.64 for my development uses. I tried with sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev but it is saying I have already latest version installed 2.48.2-0ubuntu4.6.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6633

Answers (2)

Nuno Lopes
Nuno Lopes

Reputation: 391

You have to install it from source: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/INSTALL.md

Upvotes: 0

ptomato
ptomato

Reputation: 57920

I would recommend upgrading to a later LTS version, or using a VM, a Docker container, or a Flatpak container.

If that's not possible, you might try building it and installing it yourself into a different prefix (configure with meson -Dprefix=/opt/glib or whatever). You could look into using a tool such as JHBuild to manage the prefix, but it might be more complicated than you need.

Upvotes: 0

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