How to install meld 3.11 in Ubuntu 14.04? I am trying to get meld 3.11 to work on ubuntu 14.04 I tried following the method below" cd ~ git clone cd meld sudo ln -s ~/meld/bin/meld /usr/bin/meld But when i run meld in the terminal i get the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/meld", line 223, in <module> setup_settings() File "/usr/bin/meld", line 197, in setup_settings cwd=melddir) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory I am not sure if its dependencies issue or python path problem.

#Make a clean working directory
mkdir -p work/crap
#Get in to that directory
cd work/crap
#Clone git head
git clone
#Get in to that project directory
cd meld
#Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install intltool itstool gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 libxml2-utils
#Install meld
sudo python setup.py install


If you wanted to work on the code itself without re-installing, I typically do that by installing in a venv and opening the installed to folder in the venv in an IDE.

Result of running meld in a terminal after those steps:

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Note that the current version of meld requires GTK+ 3.14, which is not available on Ubuntu 14.04 (`Meld requires GTK+ 3.14 or higher.` error). So for Ubuntu 14.04, you need to checkout the last version that does not need GTK+ 3.14. That is the meld 3.14.* branch (currently 3.14.3), so checkout the branch using `git checkout meld-3-14`.