On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 14:02, Joachim Person via gnome-devtools <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I took the latest one from
> https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtksourceview/.
> Anyway, I downloaded the latest source from
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtksourceview and tried to follow the
> installation instructions. But, (1) meson was not specified as a dependency
>

Just like Autotools is not specified as a dependency for Autotools projects.

- however, I did 'sudo apt install meson' and seemed to get product meson,
> (2) when I ran 'meson build' I got
>
> $ meson build
> The Meson build system
> Version: 0.45.1
> Source dir:
> /home/joachim/iipax/scripts_and_programs/mergetool/gtksourceview/git/gtksourceview
> Build dir:
> /home/joachim/iipax/scripts_and_programs/mergetool/gtksourceview/git/gtksourceview/build
> Build type: native build
>
> meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Meson version is 0.45.1 but project requires >=
> 0.49.0.
>
> But 'sudo apt upgrade meson' tells me I already have the latest meson
> version:
>
> "meson is already the newest version (0.45.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.1)."
>
> How can I get the required meson version?
>

It's recommended you use pip to install Meson in your $HOME:

```
$ pip3 install --user meson
```

So you can always get the latest stable version.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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