Unable to upgrade Xfce 4.12 to 4.16 on Debian 10 Buster (amd64)

Hi everybody,

I am currently running Debian 10 Buster (amd64) with Xfce 4.12

I would like to install version 4.16 as per this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175691318/

It wont update via apt and stays on the current version.

After much troubleshooting, fiddling and internet searches I suspect the reason I cannot update is because the version has not been added to my repo yet. Please can you let me know if this correct or incorrect.

I don't necessary want to upgrade my entire OS at this moment either, so what I decided was to download the package files from here: https://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.16/fat_tarballs/

I extracted the file and it gives me 16 individual packages.

I started the procedure of extracting the first package and followed the instructions from the readme file.

When running ./configure I got a few errors which I managed to resolve. However the latest error I am battling to resolve.

Code:*** The required package glib-2.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install glib-2.0 (atleast version 2.50.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.I installed glib-2.0 via apt and still ran into the same problem.

So it was back to the internet searches and tried the following

Code:export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfigand

Code:export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfigand

Code:export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATHI ran ./configure between each change but still received the same error.

I am starting to wonder if it is worth the trouble or if there may or may not be an easier way to upgrade my desktop environment.

I hope I posted enough information and appreciate any comments or critism,

Thank you