Comments on: Arora - Cross Platform WebKit Browser in Ubuntu

By: Insane User

Insane User — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:39 +0000

I just installed Arora, it works! Cool. Is there a URL that I see how the webKit could function? Is there some documentation somewhere?

Cheers,
Insane User

By: Xyzzy

Xyzzy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:05:25 +0000

FWIW, I’m running Ubuntu Jaunty, and installed Arora 0.8.0 from Canonical’s repos via commandline (sudo apt-get…) with no trouble at all.

That said, for some reason it’s running (scrolling, loading pages, typing, etc.) so slowly as to be almost unusable. That’s even with only one tab and Click-to-Flash (or whatever it’s called) turned on… I’ve seen this behavior once or twice before in the past, but I can’t recall what the exact issue was. I’ll keep an eye out for future releases -- hopefully the issue will be resolved soon, because using Dillo2 or Links2 as the “lightweight” option isn’t always the most pleasant experience.

By: Michael Justman

Michael Justman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:24:13 +0000

@Zeke: You can’t just download the deb and double-click it. The dependency is not satisfiable because you didn’t properly add the PPA repo, or you didn’t ‘sudo apt-get update’, so Ubuntu knows where to get the dependency. More than likely it’s in the same PPA.

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:40:19 +0000

I think the Ubuntu creators want former Windoze users to feel right at home. I remember all those missing DLL’s that really were not. In Ubuntu, it’s missing dependencies (that really are not). I feel just like I’m back using XP. Great!

By: Shai

Shai — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:43:57 +0000

same problem here. Any ideas?

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:16:42 +0000

I see, according to the manual, “-f” fixes broken dependencies. Okay, so I ran the command. Then attempted to open the debian package again. Same problem:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libqt4-network

Anything else to try? TIA.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:47:25 +0000

Try to run the following command

sudo apt-get -f install

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:35:33 +0000

Arora won’t install! Upon opening the debian package I get this error message:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libqt4-network

Assuming I need to install libqt4-network, I opened the Synaptic Package Manager, to discover that libqt4-network is already installed!

So now what do I do?

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:30:22 +0000

The .deb file is definitely on that web page. It just has a long file name which is truncated by the right margin. It is in the list “featured downloads”, and the full file name is:

arora_0.6-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~upstream1_i386.deb

What YOU will see, however, is something like this:

arora_0.6-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~upstream1_i

By: dougfractal

dougfractal — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:29:24 +0000

echo “echo \”#Arora webkit
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main\” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa.list

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x643dc6bd56580ceb1ab4a9f63b22ab97af1cdfa9

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install arora
” > ./arora_install.sh
sudo sh ./arora_install.sh && rm ./arora_install.sh

By: Sponge

Sponge — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:39:13 +0000

Hi I could not find the deb on the website,
where can I find it?

By: joe

joe — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:11:10 +0000

I use Arora for my olpc running DebXO, it is superslick, runs like a breeze, and only slows down if I have more than 5 tabs open (note: olpc). There is theoretical flash support, but it’s not important for what I use it for.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:18:34 +0000

I didn’t install Arora from the repository since I didn’t want an old version. I was just commenting on the fact that I couldn’t find a .deb package like you had in the article.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:09:55 +0000

@John,

After adding the source list you need to run the following command to update

sudo apt-get update

Now you try

Did you try any one method specified above

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:21:27 +0000

I can’t find any deb for Arora 0.6. I just installed it from this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive/ppa