Building GTK+ 3 Glade 3.19.0, on Ubuntu-Gnome 15.10

The current stable release of Glade on Ubuntu 14.04 and up is 3.18.0 and doesn’t include many of the newer widgets and layouts available in GTK+ 3, so let's build the newest stable release, 3.19.0, which does have the new stuff.

Glade 3.19.0 depends on GTK+ 3.16.0 or newer, you will need a system with at least Gnome 3.16.0. If you are on Ubuntu 15.04 you can try installing Gnome 3.16.0 (instructions here, Ubuntu > 15.10 and derivatives support GTK+ 3.16.0. I’m working in Elementary OS Freya / Ubuntu 14.04 so I’ll be using a virtual machine with Ubuntu-Gnome 15.10 (download here).

Howto

Once you have a system with GTK+ 3.16.0 setup and ready, follow this howto from your terminal.

1. Create a working directory where you will put the source files for compilation. mkdir ~/temp cd ~/temp
2. Download Glade source.
   • Get the source .tar from here.
   • Extract the archive into your working directory ~/temp.
3. Change to the source directory. cd ~/temp/glade-3.19.0 Read the INSTALL file for additional instructions if you like.
4. Run the configure script to prepare the package for your system. ./configure The script might take a moment to run, and you will most likely receive errors that may not state the obvious.

5. If you receive errors you are probably missing dependencies.

   • If you get: configure: error: Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.41.0 or later.
   • Run: sudo apt-get install intltool
   • If you get something like: configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.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.
   • Run sudo apt-get install pkg-config
   • If you get: configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-3.0 >= 3.16.0 gmodule-2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met:No package 'gtk+-3.0' found No package 'gmodule-2.0' found No package 'libxml-2.0' 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.

   • Run: sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

     Once you have all the dependencies run ./compile again.

6. If you’ve got past configuration, it’s time to make your build. make This might take a little while...

7. If you receive this error during make: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl" cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl Makefile:609: recipe for target 'glade.1' failed make[2]: *** [glade.1] Error 4 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/temp/glade-3.19.0/man' Makefile:493: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/temp/glade-3.19.0' Makefile:422: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2

   Run: sudo apt-get install docbook-xsl

   Run make again.

8. Once you are done compiling Glade, install it. sudo make install

   • Look in your apps or type glade to run your new Glade 3.19.0.
   • If glade won’t run and you encounter this error when run from terminal: glade: error while loading shared libraries: libgladeui-2.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   • Run: sudo cp gladeui/.libs/libgladeui-2.so.6 /usr/lib/

And that’s it you should have a working install of Glade 3.19.0.