Termite on Debian 9

sudo apt-get install -y \
	git \
	g++ \
	libgtk-3-dev \
	gtk-doc-tools \
	gnutls-bin \
	valac \
	intltool \
	libtool \
	libpcre2-dev \
	libglib3.0-cil-dev \
	libgnutls28-dev \
	libgirepository1.0-dev \
	libxml2-utils \
	gperf
	
git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git
git clone https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng.git

echo export LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/include/gtk-3.0:$LIBRARY_PATH"
cd vte-ng && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
cd ../termite && make && sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
sudo mkdir -p /lib/terminfo/x; sudo ln -s \
/usr/local/share/terminfo/x/xterm-termite \
/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-termite

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/local/bin/termite 60

thanks for doing this, works like a charm!

I needed to install libtool first due to an error during a build, so consider adding it to the apt command.

Thanks!

superb. I installed libtool as said by @Mesayah and didn't encountered any problem. Not sure whether it's required or not.

Thanks for hint! libtool added

When running this script on Debian 10 "Buster" I keep getting this error:

configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.40.0 gobject-2.0 pango >= 1.22.0 gtk+-3.0 >= 3.8.0 gobject-2.0 gio-2.0 gio-unix-2.0 zlib libpcre2-8 >= 10.21 gnutls >= 3.2.7) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
No package 'gnutls' found

And then the following:

Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
Package vte-2.91 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vte-2.91.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vte-2.91' found
Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
Package vte-2.91 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vte-2.91.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vte-2.91' found
g++ -std=c++11 -O3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Winit-self -Wshadow -Wformat=2 -Wmissing-declarations -Wstrict-overflow=5 -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wunused-macros -Wwrite-strings -DNDEBUG -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -DTERMITE_VERSION=\"v15-5-g9565563\"   -Wno-missing-field-initializers -s -Wl,--as-needed  termite.cc  -o termite
termite.cc:32:21: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:39: termite] Error 1

Does not work for me either... same reasons as above.

I was using the script for Stretch. With the upgrade to Buster everything worked and I didn't have to do it again.

I try to make a VM and see how to solve ;)

I'm on Debian 9 and it works fine. Thank you btw.

Debian 10 working fine

Good! I've moved on to kitty but I'm glad it's still working properly.

I've been using these instructions on Debian 10. I had an issue with the VTE library causing a segfault on Termite when typing certain characters like "^". Was using the default branch, 0.50.2-ng, to compile vte-ng. Switching to branch 0.56.2-ng fixed the issue.

1. Compile error of app.vala (during make inside the termite directory): "struct Test.App.Options cannot be empty"
   There is a fix documented in GNOME/vte project to add a dummy param inside "public struct Options"
   GNOME/vte@53690d5

2. There is also a runtime error: the default config file isn't installed. App configs are stored in a tree under ~/config
   Fix: Create directory, and copy the default config from the installation directory
   mkdir ~/.config/termite
   cp ~/termite/config ~/.config/termite/

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