Cannot install glib-dev

Question

I tried to build dasher, but I got it needs glib. So doing so this came up:

Checking for GLIB... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0>= 2.6) were not met:
No package 'glib-2.0' found

So I tried to install libglib2.0-dev

It gave another error:

libglib2.0-dev:
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (=2.26.0-0ubuntu1) but 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-bin but it is not going to be installed

What shall I do?

Answer 1

The problem is that you are installing the package with dpkg, which doesn't install dependencies. You have to use apt-get (aptitude could do too) like this:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

This way all dependencies needed will be automatically installed.

Answer 2

2.26 refers to GNOME 2.26, which is an old version. Do you have Ubuntu 9.10 or a similar old Ubuntu distribution?

If you can upgrade your distribution, you should be able to solve these problems. If you cannot upgrade, then get an older package of the source code of the program that compiles with dasher.

Answer 3

2.26 actually refers to the glib version, not the GNOME version and is current for maverick. I think you might have just hit a time where certain packages are uninstallable if one arch builds before another. Does this still fail to install?

Answer 4

first open the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory and delete the associated glib files and try apt-get install again.

If this doesn't install it, try using apt-get -f install.