Termite on Debian 9

sudo apt-get install -y \
	git \
	g++ \
	libgtk-3-dev \
	gtk-doc-tools \
	gnutls-bin \
	valac \
	intltool \
	libtool \
	libpcre2-dev \
	libglib3.0-cil-dev \
	libgnutls28-dev \
	libgirepository1.0-dev \
	libxml2-utils \
	gperf
	
git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git
git clone https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng.git

echo export LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/include/gtk-3.0:$LIBRARY_PATH"
cd vte-ng && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
cd ../termite && make && sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
sudo mkdir -p /lib/terminfo/x; sudo ln -s \
/usr/local/share/terminfo/x/xterm-termite \
/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-termite

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/local/bin/termite 60

I've been using these instructions on Debian 10. I had an issue with the VTE library causing a segfault on Termite when typing certain characters like "^". Was using the default branch, 0.50.2-ng, to compile vte-ng. Switching to branch 0.56.2-ng fixed the issue.

1. Compile error of app.vala (during make inside the termite directory): "struct Test.App.Options cannot be empty"
   There is a fix documented in GNOME/vte project to add a dummy param inside "public struct Options"
   GNOME/vte@53690d5

2. There is also a runtime error: the default config file isn't installed. App configs are stored in a tree under ~/config
   Fix: Create directory, and copy the default config from the installation directory
   mkdir ~/.config/termite
   cp ~/termite/config ~/.config/termite/

Sparkylinux 2020.6 based on Debian testing Bullseye