Bdtyktl

I'm using openbox on UbuntuGnome .. if that helps.

So I reviewed the documentation located here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Termite

and I can't figure out how to install it.
I'm very novice and would just like a simple explanation is possible, or at least a nudge in the right direction.

I also followed the instructions here:
https://github.com/thestinger/termite

Did the following:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git

cd termite && make

then get this:

ask@ubuntu:~/termite$ make

Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'gtk+-3.0' found

Package vte-2.91 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vte-2.91.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'vte-2.91' found

Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'gtk+-3.0' found

Package vte-2.91 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vte-2.91.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'vte-2.91' found

g++ -std=c++11 -O3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Winit-self -Wshadow -Wformat=2 -Wmissing-declarations -Wstrict-overflow=5 -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wunused-macros -Wwrite-strings -DNDEBUG -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -DTERMITE_VERSION="v11"   -Wno-missing-field-initializers -s -Wl,--as-needed  termite.cc  -o termite

termite.cc:31:21: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

Makefile:36: recipe for target 'termite' failed

make: *** [termite] Error 1

over here is an install script, that nicely explains all dependencies and stuff, I'll just copy that for you ;)

Install dependencies

sudo apt install -y g++ libgtk-3-dev gtk-doc-tools gnutls-bin valac

  intltool libpcre2-dev libglib3.0-cil-dev libgnutls28-dev

  libgirepository1.0-dev libxml2-utils gperf build-essential`

Get and install vte-ng

git clone https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng.git

echo export LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/include/gtk-3.0:$LIBRARY_PATH"

cd vte-ng && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install 

cd ..

Get and install termite, and setup

git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git

cd termite && make && sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

sudo mkdir -p /lib/terminfo/x

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/terminfo/x/xterm-termite /lib/terminfo/x/xterm-termite

Voila, this should be it ....

It looks like you didnt install the required DEPENDENCIES. It could be the problem

Package vte-2.91 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Try installing vte-ng https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng

You can Install termite on Ubuntu using this script :

Termite Installer

An easy viable alternative would be to install terminator which is easily available for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu

This is a very simple 2 step process.

1) Enable the universe repository

2) install terminator either through the Ubuntu software center or via the command line in a terminal with the command sudo apt-get install terminator

This might be a better choice as some say that terminator is superior because it can seperate the terminal window into several areas and you can re-size them as needed. Multiple windows and tabs are also supported.

Sources:

Experience

https://www.slant.co/versus/2444/2462/~terminator_vs_termite