Build gnome-shell issue: jhbuild does not find libtiff

Question

I started tinkering with gnome-shell to kill time and I just can't get jhbuild to work! I followed all the instructions on the jhbuild guide on the gnome-shell wiki.

I got to the part where it says to run $ jhbuild sysdeps gnome-shell.

txjoe@superpotato:~$ jhbuild sysdeps gnome-shell
System installed packages which are new enough:
    libvpx (vpx.pc, installed=1.4.0)
    speex (speex.pc, required=1.2rc1, installed=1.2rc1)
    ruby 
    libtool 
    libtool-ltdl 
    [...]
    gmime (gmime-2.6.pc, required=2.6.6, installed=2.6.20)
    docbook-xml 
    mtdev (mtdev.pc, required=1.1.1, installed=1.1.5)
Required packages:
  System installed packages which are too old:
    (none)
  No matching system package installed:
    libsystemd-journal (libsystemd-journal.pc, required=201)
    libtiff 
    poppler (poppler-glib.pc, required=0.24.0)
Optional packages: (JHBuild will build the missing packages)
  System installed packages which are too old:
    libical (libical.pc, required=1.0.1, installed=1.0)
    WebKit (webkit2gtk-4.0.pc, required=2.11.3, installed=2.8.5)
  No matching system package installed:

I installed the following packages manually

libsystemd-dev 
python-poppler
libtiff5
python-libtiff

And I got the same output when I ran the same command again. I checked other answers here, nothing seems to work so far. Any tips?

Answer 1

You need to install the development packages. It is possible that you installed the runtime libraries, but those ones do not have the header files to compile a program.

The development libraries in Debian-based distributions end in -dev. Thus, installing libtiff5 is not enough, because it is the runtime library.

In your specific case, you must install libtiff5-dev, libpoppler-glib-dev, and libsystemd-dev.

Alternatively, you can try:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-shell

This command will install the development libraries required to build gnome-shell. At least, this might help to start with, and fix the particular issues/