I did and that added: chrpath intltool libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatspi2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libdrm-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libepoxy-dev libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libgtk-3-dev libopengl0 libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxshmfence-dev libxtst-dev libxxf86vm-dev wayland-protocols x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev

I have also ran: sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev sudo apt-get install libperl-dev sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

I still get the same error.

one other little note: pkg-config --version 0.29.2

I will but I blew that VM away and will need to reload it. I am currently working on another approach that is showing promise (mama always said I was pigheaded):

### adapted from https://www.geany.org/Download/Git#nightly ####

# you need all of the following installed sudo apt-get install autoconf sudo apt-get install libtool sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install gettext sudo apt-get install pkg-config sudo apt-get install intltool sudo apt-get install gcc sudo apt-get install g++ sudo apt-get install glib2.0 sudo apt-get install gtk2.0 sudo apt-get install docutils-common sudo apt-get install git

cd ~/Downloads git clone git://github.com/geany/geany.git geany cd geany ./autogen.sh

# follow instructions in file named "INSTALL" # at this point you might wish to create a backup copy

./autogen.sh Make make check sudo make install

Well that worked and I now have a full working copy of geany 1.34 with all the plugins that will compile. Unfortunately the reason I was interested in geany was the debugger plugin and it is one of the several that will NOT compile. something to do with this I suspect: ... $ make Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory '/home/lewis/Downloads/geany-plugins/debugger/src' CC debugger_la-bptree.lo bptree.c: In function ‘on_hitscount_changed’: bptree.c:373:5: warning: this ‘if’ clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation] if (oldcount != count) ^~ bptree.c:376:2: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the ‘if’ gtk_tree_path_free(tree_path); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CC debugger_la-breakpoint.lo CC debugger_la-breakpoints.lo CC debugger_la-btnpanel.lo CC debugger_la-callbacks.lo CC debugger_la-calltip.lo CC debugger_la-dbm_gdb.lo CC debugger_la-dconfig.lo dconfig.c: In function ‘saving_thread_func’: dconfig.c:314:2: warning: ‘g_cond_timed_wait’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] while (!g_cond_timed_wait(cond, change_config_mutex, &interval)); ^~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:285:17: note: declared here gboolean g_cond_timed_wait (GCond *cond, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dconfig.c: In function ‘config_init’: dconfig.c:461:2: warning: ‘g_mutex_new’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] change_config_mutex = g_mutex_new(); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:277:17: note: declared here GMutex * g_mutex_new (void); ^~~~~~~~~~~ dconfig.c:462:2: warning: ‘g_cond_new’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] cond = g_cond_new(); ^~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:281:17: note: declared here GCond * g_cond_new (void); ^~~~~~~~~~ dconfig.c:463:2: warning: ‘g_thread_create’ is deprecated: Use 'g_thread_new' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations] saving_thread = g_thread_create(saving_thread_func, NULL, TRUE, NULL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:104:10: note: declared here GThread *g_thread_create (GThreadFunc func, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dconfig.c: In function ‘config_destroy’: dconfig.c:474:2: warning: ‘g_mutex_free’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] g_mutex_free(change_config_mutex); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:279:17: note: declared here void g_mutex_free (GMutex *mutex); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ dconfig.c:475:2: warning: ‘g_cond_free’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] g_cond_free(cond); ^~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:108:0, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h:21, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:22, from dconfig.c:30: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/deprecated/gthread.h:283:17: note: declared here void g_cond_free (GCond *cond); ^~~~~~~~~~~ CC debugger_la-debug.lo debug.c:53:10: fatal error: vte/vte.h: No such file or directory #include <vte/vte.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. Makefile:1032: recipe for target 'debugger_la-debug.lo' failed make[1]: *** [debugger_la-debug.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/lewis/Downloads/geany-plugins/debugger/src' Makefile:583: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 $ ... By the way there are a LOT of plugins that do not compile: ... geany-plugins-1.34

Build Environment: Geany version: 1.34 (GTK2) Install prefix: /usr/local Datadir: /usr/local/share/geany-plugins Libdir: /usr/local/lib/geany-plugins Docdir: /usr/local/share/doc/geany-plugins Plugins path: /usr/local/lib/geany

Build Features: Unit tests: no Static code checking: no Extra C compiler warnings: yes Extra linker options: yes

Plugins: Addons: yes Autoclose: yes Automark: yes CodeNav: yes Commander: yes Debugger: no Defineformat: yes DevHelp: no GeanyCtags: yes GeanyDoc: yes GeanyExtraSel: yes GeanyGenDoc: no GeanyInsertNum: yes LaTeX: yes GeanyLua: no GeanyMacro: yes GeanyMiniScript: yes GeanyNumberedBookmarks: yes GeanyPrj: yes Geanypy: no GeanyVC: yes GeanyPG: no GeniusPaste: no GitChangeBar: no keyrecord: yes LineOperations: yes Lipsum: yes Markdown: no MultiTerm: no Overview: yes PairTagHighlighter: yes PoHelper: yes Pretty Printer: no ProjectOrganizer: yes Scope: no Sendmail: yes ShiftColumn: yes Spellcheck: no TreeBrowser: yes Tableconvert: yes Updatechecker: no Vimode: yes WebHelper: no Workbench: yes XMLSnippets: yes

Features: GeanyVC GtkSpell support: no Markdown library: peg-markdown Utility library: yes ...

**What exactly was the "that" that worked?**

See the message above: "I am currently working on another approach that is showing promise" I started with a fairly clean virtual machine image _(gcc, g++ and make were already installed)_ and loaded the software as listed. Then I got the latest files from git huh and went through autogen.sh, etc. By the way, by the time I am done that adds about 500 MBytes to my file system --- lightweight ???

**I'm also interested in why it even tried to build debugger when the configure said "no".** Because I ran make in its subdirectory to determine if it was a minor problem that I could address. It was not.

**Can you run the Geany supplied by Ubuntu and post the line with GTK version from Menu->Help-Debug Messages** OK ... I started with another clean virtual machine image and used synaptic package manager to install geany geany-plugins ``` 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Creating configuration directory 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Geany 1.32, en_US.UTF-8 00:56:19: Geany INFO : GTK 3.22.30, GLib 2.56.1 00:56:19: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/share/geany 00:56:19: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/lewis/.config/geany 00:56:19: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/geany 00:56:19: Geany INFO : No user config file found, trying to use global configuration. 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (61). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (62). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (63). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (64). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (65). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (66). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (67). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (68). 00:56:19: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so.0 00:56:19: Geany INFO : unknown : None (UTF-8) 00:56:19: (null) DEBUG : Name com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar does not exist on the session bus

``` You are correct: GTK 3.22.30

**You could try --enable-gtk3 on configure to build the GTK3 version from source if the installed version is gtk3 (as indicated by the debug messages).** I am not sure exactly what you mean. should the command be "./configure --enable-gtk3" ? OK .. I started with another clean virtual machine image and copied the file geany-1.3.3.tar.gz to ~/Downloads. The folder geany-1.33 was extracted to the same directory. I opened a terminal window in that directory.

``` cd /home/lewis/Downloads/geany-1.33 ./configure --enable-gtk3

``` no joy So I tried

``` sudo apt-get install GTK3.0 ./configure --enable-gtk3 ``` Now the error message is: ``` configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.32 gio-2.0 >= 2.32 gmodule-no-export-2.0) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-3.0' found No package 'glib-2.0' found No package 'gio-2.0' found No package 'gmodule-no-export-2.0' found ``` One more time

``` sudo apt-get install glib2.0 sudo apt-get install gtk2.0 ./configure --enable-gtk3 ```

and the error is: ``` checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.32 gio-2.0 >= 2.32 gmodule-no-export-2.0... no configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.32 gio-2.0 >= 2.32 gmodule-no-export-2.0) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-3.0' found

``` I am going to blow that image away and surender.

**You did remember to run apt-get build-deps geany again** The answer to that would be a negative. So I started over ... again . The attached text file has complete instructions that do work (I ran through it twice to be certain). The instructions as given on the webpage: https://www.geany.org/Download/Git#nightly are wee bit sparse.

One interesting thing to note is when ones runs "sudo apt-get build-deps geany-plugins", it decides it needs to download two files from the previous version of geany (1.32): ``` Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 geany-common all 1.32-2 [1,816 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 geany amd64 1.32-2 [1,033 kB]

``` Anyway I have a new virtual machine image named "BuildGeany" that has all the autotools and dependencies installed on it. Now all I have to do is wait for someone to fix the debugger plugin. Then I can rebuild everything and work on figuring out how to turn it into a deb package. ``` =========================================================== 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Geany 1.34 (git >= 0c658c6a), en_US.UTF-8 05:10:20: Geany INFO : GTK 3.22.30, GLib 2.56.1 05:10:20: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/local/share/geany 05:10:20: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/lewis/.config/geany 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/local/share/geany/geany.css' 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/local/share/geany/geany-3.20.css' 05:10:20: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/local/lib/geany 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (61). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (62). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (63). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (64). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (65). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (66). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (67). 05:10:20: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (68). 05:10:21: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so.0 05:10:21: Geany INFO : unknown : None (UTF-8) 05:10:21: (null) DEBUG : Name com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar does not exist on the session bus ===========================================================

```

[BuildGeanyInstructions.txt](https://github.com/geany/geany/files/2257078/BuildGeanyInstructions.txt)

I use Xubuntu 18.04 x64 and GTK2-version 1.33, [geany-1.33-18.04-gtk2](https://www99.zippyshare.com/v/91mAk4AC/file.html): deb-files and all needed files to build deb

build/geany_1.33-1ubuntu1.dsc build/geany_1.33-1ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz build/geany-plugins_1.33+dfsg-1ubuntu1.dsc build/geany-plugins_1.33+dfsg-1ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz

But one moment: I use [this PR](https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1752).

For portable use from ```$HOME/geany``` with config directory ```$HOME/geany/config```: ```sh #!/bin/sh

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/geany/lib:${HOME}/geany/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${HOME}/geany/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS} export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=${HOME}/geany/share/glib-2.0/schemas:${GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR} exec ${HOME}/geany/bin/geany --config=${HOME}/geany/config "$@" ```

Closing since the original issue is resolved.