I tried again (Ubuntu 18.04):
* binaries verification succeeded * source verification failed in gRPC configure step: CMake Error at cmake/cares.cmake:38 (find_package): Could not find a package configuration file provided by "c-ares" with any of the following names: c-aresConfig.cmake c-ares-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "c-ares" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "c-ares_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "c-ares" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:139 (include) Problem is, Ubuntu's c-ares does not provide any CMake files: $ dpkg -L libc-ares-dev /. /usr /usr/include /usr/include/ares.h /usr/include/ares_build.h /usr/include/ares_dns.h /usr/include/ares_rules.h /usr/include/ares_version.h /usr/lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcares.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libcares.pc /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libc-ares-dev /usr/share/doc/libc-ares-dev/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/libc-ares-dev/README.cares /usr/share/doc/libc-ares-dev/README.md /usr/share/doc/libc-ares-dev/copyright /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man3 [ snip man pages ] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcares.so Regards Antoine.