I cant configure rhythmbox as gobject-introspection 1 is not installed

Previously I advised someone on how to upgrade to Rhythmbox to version 2.99.1 here. However they couldn't upgrade due to gobject-introspection-1.0 not being installed. I couldn't help them.

Now, with a brand new computer, I am getting the same problem as they had. here is the result ov ./configure

simon@simon-TS44HR:~/Downloads/rhythmbox-2.99.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for gobject-introspection... configure: error: gobject-introspection-1.0 is not installed

I tried to install gobject-introspection with the following

simon@simon-TS44HR:~/Downloads/rhythmbox-2.99.1$ sudo apt-get -f install gobject-introspection
[sudo] password for simon: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gobject-introspection is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

so I tried :

simon@simon-TS44HR:~/Downloads/rhythmbox-2.99.1$ sudo apt-get -f install gobject-introspection-1.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gobject-introspection-1.0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gobject-introspection-1.0'

I have not really got to grips with installing software properly, any help would be appreciated.

You need to install the gobject-introspection development package (library) in order for ./configure (or pkg-config) to see it. This package is libgirepository1.0-dev . However, on my machine, ever after installing this package, I kept encountering errors on other missing dependencies for the compiling to work.

The easiest way to satisfy all the requirements for compiling Rhythmbox is to execute the command:

sudo apt-get build-dep rhythmbox

This will install a bunch of libraries and packages that are needed for compiling Rhythmbox (it will need to get around 76 MB at the time of this answer).

Once it's done, do ./configure again and it should not spit out any errors. Continue with sudo make and sudo make install.

After installing, rhythmbox might not run, and running it from the terminal will give you:

rhythmbox: error while loading shared libraries: librhythmbox-core.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

To fix this, do:

sudo cp /usr/local/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.7 /usr/lib

Source: [Rhythmbox-devel] Problem with 2.99.1 installation.

I just tried all of this, and it worked.