Jtdcftul

I am running Ubuntu 16.04

NetworkManager --version

returns 1.2.6

I am wanting to update to the lastest stable version (1.14.4) from here.

The install documentation says "the shell command './configure && make && make install'
should configure, build, and install this package."

After much trial and error I managed to get ./configure to complete with out reporting any errors by installing the following packages:

apt-get install gtk-doc-tools libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev uuid-dev libnss3-dev ppp-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-nss-dev libndp-dev libreadline-dev intltool

However when I run make I get:

mike@Ubuntu16:~/Downloads/NetworkManager-1.14.4$ make

make  all-recursive

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/mike/Downloads/NetworkManager-1.14.4'

Making all in .

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/mike/Downloads/NetworkManager-1.14.4'

  GEN      config-extra.h

  GEN      libnm-core/nm-core-enum-types.h

  CC       clients/nm_online-nm-online.o

In file included from ./shared/nm-default.h:311:0,

                 from clients/nm-online.c:34:

./libnm/NetworkManager.h:60:27: fatal error: nm-enum-types.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

Makefile:15265: recipe for target 'clients/nm_online-nm-online.o' failed

make[2]: *** [clients/nm_online-nm-online.o] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mike/Downloads/NetworkManager-1.14.4'

Makefile:17770: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mike/Downloads/NetworkManager-1.14.4'

Makefile:7864: recipe for target 'all' failed

make: *** [all] Error 2

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Running into dependency issues while building from source is normal and painful. It's better to install using apt

First, let's see the package that's responsible for NetworkManager

dpkg -S $(which NetworkManager)

It's the network-manager package. Now let's see what we have avaliable

apt policy network-manager

On U18 I have 1.12.4 . Try upgrading the network-manager package.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install network-manager

If you want the ubuntu 18 network-manager package you can try the below

# WARNING! THIS IS DANGEROUS AND MIGHT BREAK YOUR SYSTEM. IT'S BEST TO REMOVE IT AFTER INSTALLING THE PACKAGE YOU WANT

echo 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic universe' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt uddate

sudo apt install network-manager

One more thing (and this is a shot in the dark); a lot of the dev packages will have the header files you need. So try

sudo apt install network-manager-dev