Comments on: Howto install latest Epiphany (webkit) Browser in Jaunty

By: molecule-eye

molecule-eye — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:27:17 +0000

This doesn’t install the latest 2.28.x version. It installs (presently) the 2.27.x version. Also it doesn’t install the latest WebkitGTK+ version. How you install the latest version is a mystery to me. I can’t find any debs or PPAs for these things. You have to build from source, unfortunately.

By: nanker

nanker — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:44:18 +0000

[quote]Unfortunately the key server is not responding right now?[/quote]
I can’t seem to get any luv installing the version of Epiphany where I can actually have the spell checker enabled.

The key server seems to be down for me also, but are the keys necessary to install? I know, probably a dumb question, but I don’t very often add repos to my sources.list, so I always forget the process.

Anyway when trying to install I get the following:

nanker@tak:~$ sudo apt-get install epiphany-webkit
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package epiphany-webkit is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package epiphany-webkit has no installation candidate

do you think it is b/c I could not get the keys from:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2D9A3C5B

that is causing this problem? I notice the tut is fairly fresh so I am thinking the ppa links should be current

cheers,
nanker

By: John M

John M — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:03:17 +0000

To C. Phillips -

Every time I’ve run “sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser”, even with the epiphany-webkit ppa in my sources, it still insists on pulling the gecko version for some reason. Not sure why, as the web-kit version has a higher version number than the gecko version, but it does. BTW, do you have access to extensions in Epiphany-Webkit? I still haven’t worked that one out, and it is slowly driving me mad trying to chase down a fix.

By: Bird

Bird — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:47:43 +0000

This way the browser will be updated all the time when you sudo apt-get upgrade.

Unfortunately the key server is not responding right now?

By: C Phillips

C Phillips — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:37:12 +0000

Thanks for tipping me onto epiphany. Never used it before. I was wondering why you didn’t just “sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser” like it says on the epiphany site though? It worked for me.

By: John M

John M — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:38:50 +0000

I’m a huge Epiphany fan, and have been for a long time and really looking forward to using the latest version in Karmic. Anyway, I have already added the sources to install Ephiphany-Webkit in Jaunty a while back, and even though it installs Epiphany-Webkit extensions, the “Tools” menu is missing from the browser, and therefore I am unable to access the extensions. I am using the most current version, and find this extremely frustrating. Is there something special you did to enable extensions, because I still haven’t figured out a way to get to them, or are they no longer under the “Tools” menu and am I simply looking for them in the wrong place?