GTK in Geany?

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Hey parrot people,
I’m relatively new to parrot, and I was trying to start using the pre-installed geany to make GUI programs with GTK in C++. When I “#include <gtk/gtk.h>”, it says “no such file or directory”. I notice there is a “gtkcompat.h” in my “/usr/include/geany” directory, but even in the code of that it tries to “#inlude <gtk/gtk.h>”.

I don’t see a “gtk.h” located anywhere on the system.
Am I missing something here?
Am I being dumb?
Do I need to configure or build it or something?

Setup:
Fresh install of Parrot 4.7 security on amd64
Installed from usb
Dual boot with windows
Seperate partition for /home

Bonus junk I’ve tried:
I know parrot’s pretty sensitive with updating things, but I tried just installing gtk (and dependencies) as if it doesn’t have it. Part of the way into the dependencies the system wouldn’t boot.

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sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev

source - https://askubuntu.com/questions/397432/fatal-error-gtk-gtk-h-no-such-file-or-directory-using-make

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Getting some errors.
E: Failed to fetch https://parrot.ca.mirror.cythin.com/parrot/pool/main/w/wayland/libwayland-bin_1.17.0-1_amd64.deb Hash Sum mismatch

Edit:
trying dpkg -i <blah.deb> to install the package manually tells me it’s not a Debian form at archive

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Clear the apt cache -

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

then run sudo apt update, after installing libgtk-3-dev check if gtk.h exists or not by running -

┌─[x230@ThiccPad]─[~]
└──╼ $find /usr/include/ -iname gtk.h
/usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/gtk.h
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h
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Still nothing. Still failed to fetch and gtk.h still doesn’t exist…

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Post error logs/screenshot.

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messages.gz (494.3 KB)
I hope that’s what you’re looking for

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Soooo shortly after that post, I just tried apt install libgtk-3-dev again and it worked…
I don’t think anything I did modified anything. I’ve got a gtk.h now. maybe it just needed a restart?
Not sure how, but thanks for your time mate.

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