How to install a specific version of granite dependency on Ubuntu 18.0.4?

Question

I am trying to build Akira on Ubuntu 18.0.4.2.

I checked the instruction at the Github site: https://github.com/akiraux/Akira#-compile, and installed all dependencies by using sudo apt install.

After I ran the instructed command: meson build --prefix=/usr -Dprofile=default, I saw the error output as following:

Dependency granite found: NO found '0.5' but need: '>= 5.2.0'
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.10.2)
Dependency granite found: NO (tried cmake)

meson.build:17:0: ERROR: Invalid version of dependency, need 'granite' ['>= 5.2.0'] found '0.5'.

How do I resolve this situation to run meson successfully?

Answer 1

I figured out that I need to install it from the source. Once done, granite was installed with version 5.2.3

# Install dependency, this was required before proceeding
sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev

# Clone the latest master
git clone git@github.com:elementary/granite.git

# Navigate to the latest cloned repo folder
cd granite

# Run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr

# Navigate to build directory
cd build

# Build using ninja
ninja && sudo ninja install

Answer 2

Hi I'm trying to compile Akira on 18.04 as well. For me building granite from source did not work. but then I found that you can just install the libgranite-devpackage.