Trying to compile uget

[mringer]

Lubuntu 16.04 Trying to install uget-2.2.3 from sourceforge.

configure prints this error:

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-3.0 >= 3.4) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-3.0' 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 GTK_CFLAGS
and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

AFAIK there is no such package. What I have is

libgtk-3-0
libgtk-3-bin
libgtk-3-common

all latest.

please, how can I fix? If I set the env. vars, what should I set them to?
I think the likeliest cause is that the package names are wrong in configure
or maybe in configure.ac . The relevant-I-think lines of this file are:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-3.0 >= 3.4)
PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([glib-2.0],
	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0)
		PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBCRYPTO, libcrypto)
  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBNOTIFY, libnotify)
	PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([appindicator3-0.1],
	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APP_INDICATOR, appindicator3-0.1)
  PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([gstreamer-1.0],
  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GSTREAMER, gstreamer-1.0)
  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GSTREAMER, gstreamer-0.10)
  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBPWMD, [libpwmd-8.0 >= 8.3.0])

BTW it is a very clumsy bit of programming that configure stops on the first
missing dependency. It ought to check them all.

Please any advice?

[guiverc]

I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but Lubuntu 16.04 is EOL or end-of-life.

If you note the Lubuntu 16.04.5 release notes

Please note that this is the final point release in the 16.04 series, and is only supported until April 2019.

or a Ubuntu 16.04.5 release notice

Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Base, and Ubuntu Kylin. All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years.

If you're off-line it won't be a concern, but please be aware only packages from 'main' are now getting security fixes, and it maybe worthwhile considering moving to a later 18.04 LTS release (or better yet to 20.04 LTS).

[norobro]

The pkg-config (.pc) files are in the development packages with the headers.

In this instance you need: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgtk-3-dev

[mringer]

Thank you who replied.

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In this instance you need: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgtk-3-dev

I installed this. Then configure asked for libnotify

Again, there is no such package & I guessed that the actual package was libnotify-dev .

Now configure is asking for gstreamer-0.10

Again, there is no such package. But now there are ~~20 packages called gstreamer0.10(something)

If I get past this, configure will then ask for libpwmd which also does not exist

please what are the actual names of the packages that I need?

[sisco311]

libgstreamer1.0-dev

I would try:

sudo apt build-dep uget

to install all the build dependencies of uget.

[mringer]

sudo apt build-dep uget

to install all the build dependencies of uget.

Thank you, this worked. But on the subject of things having silly names: this program is
not uget but uget-gtk & the manpage ditto.