This section describes how to install GTK 4 into Linux distributions.
There are two ways to install GTK 4.
The first way is the best and easiest way to install it. I’ve installed GTK 4 packages (version 4.8.1) in Ubuntu 22.10.
$ sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev
It is important to install the developing package (libgtk-4-dev). It includes C header files. Otherwise, you can’t compile any GTK 4 based programs.
Fedora, Debian, Arch, Gentoo and OpenSUSE also have GTK 4 packages. Package information for Arch, Debian/Ubuntu and Fedra is described by Installing GTK from packages. The following table shows the distributions which support GTK 4.
@@@table |Distribution|version|GTK 4|GNOME| |:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| |Fedora|37|4.8.2-2|GNOME 43| |Ubuntu|22.10|4.8.1|GNOME 43.0| |Debian|bookworm(testing)|4.8.2|GNOME 43| |Arch|rolling release|4.8.2|GNOME 43| |Gentoo|rolling release|4.8.2|GNOME 43| |OpenSUSE|Tumbleweed(rolling release)|4.8.2|GNOME 43| @@@
If you want to install a developing version of GTK 4, you need to build it from the source. See Compiling the GTK Libraries section in the GTK 4 API reference.