SQLite not found when compiling bitcoin-core v29.0 with wallet mode

I have installed SQLite3 from the docs of Bitcoin Core.

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Ubuntu x86_64 24.4.2 LTS
AMD Ryzen 7

yuvic@yuvic-ulinux:~/bitcoin$ cmake -B build -DENABLE_WALLET=ON
-- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE dot) 

Configuring secp256k1 subtree...
-- Could NOT find Valgrind (missing: Valgrind_INCLUDE_DIR Valgrind_WORKS) 


secp256k1 configure summary
===========================
Build artifacts:
  library type ........................ Static
Optional modules:
  ECDH ................................ OFF
  ECDSA pubkey recovery ............... ON
  extrakeys ........................... ON
  schnorrsig .......................... ON
  musig ............................... OFF
  ElligatorSwift ...................... ON
Parameters:
  ecmult window size .................. 15
  ecmult gen table size ............... 86 KiB
Optional features:
  assembly ............................ x86_64
  external callbacks .................. OFF
Optional binaries:
  benchmark ........................... OFF
  noverify_tests ...................... ON
  tests ............................... ON
  exhaustive tests .................... ON
  ctime_tests ......................... OFF
  examples ............................ OFF

Cross compiling ....................... FALSE
Valgrind .............................. OFF
Preprocessor defined macros ........... ENABLE_MODULE_ELLSWIFT=1 ENABLE_MODULE_SCHNORRSIG=1 ENABLE_MODULE_EXTRAKEYS=1 ENABLE_MODULE_RECOVERY=1 ECMULT_WINDOW_SIZE=15 COMB_BLOCKS=43 COMB_TEETH=6 USE_ASM_X86_64=1
C compiler ............................ GNU 13.3.0, /usr/bin/cc
CFLAGS ................................ 
Compile options ....................... -pedantic -Wall -Wcast-align -Wcast-align=strict -Wextra -Wnested-externs -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wno-unused-function -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
Build type:
 - CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE ................... Release
 - CFLAGS ............................. -O2 -g 
 - LDFLAGS for executables ............ 
 - LDFLAGS for shared libraries ....... 

CMake Error at src/wallet/CMakeLists.txt:46 (message):
  Wallet functionality requested but no BDB or SQLite support available.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

yuvic@yuvic-ulinux:~/bitcoin$ pkg-config --modversion sqlite3
3.45.1

Note: This issue doesn’t occur in master branch

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