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Webkit Summary

Webkit is an open source web browser core display system, similar to Mozilla's Gecko. For some reason, I've been having lots of problems with Iceweasel lately, so I might try to work on this a little and see if I can have any better luck.

Using Webkit

In debian, there is a package called libwebkit, but I can't figure out how one would go about actually using it. Actually, looks like there is an epiphany package for webkit: epiphany-webkit. Its fast, but crashes a lot. There is also a package in debian sid called midori that runs pretty well, but also crashes often for me. NOTE: The crashes don't happen nearly as much as they used to.

Webkit Compiling

A new page: Webkit Compiling.

Libsoup

Instead I'm now trying to build it manually using autogen.sh. Running into this error now:

checking for LIBSOUP... configure: error: Package requirements (libsoup-2.4 >= 2.25.91) were not met:

Requested 'libsoup-2.4 >= 2.25.91' but version of libsoup is 2.24.3

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBSOUP_CFLAGS
and LIBSOUP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Libproxy

Now installing:

svn checkout http://libproxy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ libproxy-read-only
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Now back to libsoup... so far so good.

I'll have to manually install libsoup too.

SquirrelFish

I was going to try to use SquirrelFish today, but then I realized that it only works on 32-bit. UPDATE: Looks like x86_64 is in the works, and looks good: WebKit 1.1.3 in experimental! See Webkit Compiling.

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