Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Epiphany added support for the Webkit engine since version 2.19.6. This short article will help you install Epiphany with the Webkit backend on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
1. Install all of the dependencies:
sudo aptitude install python2.4 libcurl3 libffi4
2. Download the deb packages for Ubuntu 7.10 from here. You need epiphany-webkit_2.20.1-2_i386.deb, epiphany-browser-data_2.20.1-2_all.deb and libwebkitgtk0d_0~svn26044-1_i386.deb.
3. Install Epiphany with the Webkit backend, you can run this command:
sudo dpkg -i epiphany-webkit_2.20.1-2_i386.deb epiphany-browser-data_2.20.1-2_all.deb libwebkitgtk0d_0~svn26044-1_i386.deb
To run Epiphany, you can execute the following command in terminal:
epiphany-webkit
4 responses so far ↓
1 Raven // Nov 21, 2007 at 6:48 pm
64bit version?
2 Volker // Dec 5, 2007 at 12:52 am
In the dialogue “Help” -> “About” it still prints Gecko 1.8 as engine. I had to remove the epiphany-browser packet from the ubuntu repositories first to install the version listed above.
3 me // Jan 12, 2008 at 8:42 am
to be exact, epiphany-browser-data_2.20.1-2_all.deb conflicts with epiphany-browser about a man page at /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-browser.1.gz
4 Infogerance // Feb 26, 2008 at 11:32 am
Please would you provide a link to the package source? I would like to run the package compilation myself.
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