How do I install glib?

I want to build the Empathy in Ubuntu 11.04. When I follow the build process,

 ./autogen.sh

The shell said to me that

libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
testing autoconf2.50... not found.
testing autoconf... found 2.67
checking for automake >= 1.9...
testing automake-1.11... found 1.11.1
checking for libtool >= 1.5...
testing libtoolize... found 2.2.6b
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
testing glib-gettextize... not found.
***Error***: You must have glib-gettext >= 2.2.0 installed
to build Empathy. Download the appropriate package for
from your distribution or get the source tarball at
ftp://

But when I cannot find the way to install glib. What should I do to install that in ubuntu 11?

3 Answers

You need libglib2.0-dev for glib-gettext. You can install it with

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

you also need to install libgtk2.0-dev in order to install glib completely (glib is a part of : libgtk2.0-dev)

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

see this link for more explaination: installing gtk and glib

I recommend you search for available ppa's if you want to just checkout the newer empathy than you have. I think this ppa is the best bet Or just do this

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:telepathy/ppa

Or if you need to build it.

sudo apt-get build-dep empathy

which will install all the dependencies required to build empathy from source.