ERROR: Could not detect Ninja v1.5 or newer

[johnny-wang16]

just a quick note on installing meson and ninja.
I followed this link to get meson and I installed ninja using sudo apt-get ninja-build but got the error : ERROR: Could not detect Ninja v1.5 or newer when executing meson . build . I resolved it by first uninstall ninja-build and re-installing ninja from source and copy the executable to /home/<user_name>/.local/bin .
Specifically,
1.install and build ninja:
git clone git://github.com/ninja-build/ninja.git && cd ninja
./configure.py --bootstrap
2. copy executable over
sudo cp ninja /home/<user_name>/.local/bin

After doing these steps, I was able to meson . build