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While trying to install lollypop I got this error 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lollypop/container.py", line 79, in update_db
    self.__show_first_run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lollypop/container.py", line 335, in __show_first_run
    view = FirstRunView()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lollypop/view_first_run.py", line 29, in __init__
    builder.add_from_resource("/org/gnome/Lollypop/FirstRunView.ui")
GLib.Error: gtk-builder-error-quark: .:3:50 Required gtk+ version 3.20, current version is 3.18 (7)
Zanna
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Keshav Maheshwari
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1 Answers1

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If you Google this, you will find guides like this and this. In addition, you will find that this has been asked before on this very site at least twice: once in 2016 and once in 2015.

Now, to be fair, I'm used to arch, which already ships with 3.20. Being maybe 1 year after the release of 3.20, I almost didn't believe the Ubuntu guides above. Really? Add a separate repository, including one with staging in the name? Nevertheless, it's true and the tl;dr is very simple:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

I did these exact steps today, rebooted for good measure, and enjoyed that my preferred openbox themes (which work fine on arch) were no longer messed up (due to 3.18, which I never would have suspected).

Hendy
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