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I am trying to install elementaryOS (Juno)'s terminal emulator on Mint 19 Tessa. I checked the instruction at the git hub site https://github.com/elementary/terminal, and I installed all dependencies by using sudo apt install.

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

Native dependency granite found: NO found '0.5' but need: '>=5.2.0' meson.build:25:0: ERROR: Invalid version of dependency, need 'granite' ['>=5.2.0'] found '0.5'.

I found the version of this library for Ubuntu is different (though Ver 0.5 is the latest for Ubuntu), but Debian's one is satisfiable. So, I went to Debian package site and downloaded a Debian package libgranite-dev (5.2.3-1), but it wouldn't be installed because the GDebi installer said the dependency was not satisfiable.

How could I cope with this situation to run meson successfully?

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The package is called pantheon-terminal, available from the elementary repositories, you can enable the repository to build the dependencies libgranite5, then disable it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/stable
sudo apt build-dep pantheon-terminal
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:elementary-os/stable
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    Thanks a lot! I finally installed the pantheon-terminal on Mint!!! By the way, I found the second command line should be sudo apt-get build-dep pantheon-terminal :)
    – buck_banzai
    Mar 27, 2019 at 17:46
  • I cannot vote up your answer because I still haven't had over 15 reps yet. I will come back and vote your answer after I get more than 15 reps :)
    – buck_banzai
    Mar 27, 2019 at 17:55
  • As of July 2020, Linux Mint doesn't appear to allow the addition of the elementary-os PPA. I get an error that 'This PPA does not support focal'.
    – chmedly
    Jul 30, 2020 at 21:09
  • this PPA ppa:elementary-os/stable not work? this show a 404 message
    – flourigh
    Sep 2, 2020 at 13:48

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