It's likely you just miss a GTK2 version of libvte, please check which version of this lib you have installed, if any. On Debian-like systems (like Ubuntu), you need the libvte9 package (not libvte-2.90-9, which is the GTK3 version).
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It's likely you just miss a GTK2 version of libvte, please check which version of this lib you have installed, if any. On Debian-like systems (like Ubuntu), you need the libvte9 package (not libvte-2.90-9, which is the GTK3 version).