I've tried to use the jhbuild system and it refuses to install any of the dependencies erroring out with I: Nothing available to install.
Is there any guide or wiki page or blog post that explains how to build the gnome-shell on Ubuntu 18.04?
If there's any ambiguity, I need to build the gnome-shell itself not a shell extension.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install apt-file
Explanation:
Even if your problem seems similar to this one:
Whats the proper way to install Jhbuild?
your error is Nothing available to install while his error was Nothing to install.
The error can be found here in the sourcecode of jhbuild:
The requirement is given here:
https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/stable/command-reference.html.en#command-reference-sysdeps
For distributions using APT such as Debian and Ubuntu, this option [--install] requires apt-file to be installed.
