Cannot enter selection mode

[xificurC]

The first thing I tried after installing based on this was to press Ctrl+Shift+Space to enter the selection mode and I am greeted with a response:

termite: symbol lookup error: termite: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_disconnect_pty_read

and my terminal dies at that point.

[SV3A]

I had the same problem. I solved it by adding the directory where the vte library was placed by the installation script to the system library path, i.e. I created the file vte.conf in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, in there I subsequently added the directory where the vte lib resides, which is /usr/local/lib/