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arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

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Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

I have been using this for a month now -from Nov 16th - (It was available in AUR but suddenly vanished- maintainer Jay). I have updated to latest builds thru svn, both webkitgtk-svn as well as epiphany. It shows version as 2.21.5 (epiphany) and webkitgtk as Rev 28886.

It is amazingly fast, quite stable and plugins work well. Sometimes links refuse to open in the same page and you have to right click and open in new page, but this could be another problem as I use arch 64 with no lib32 - Gnash and gcc-gcj -.

I wonder why it has not hit testing yet. It could be the right answer for gnome/xfce users wanting to get rid of the Firefox bloat.

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Could you share your pkgbuild?

Only 2.22 appears in testing as all other gnome packages.

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arunvragh

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/epiph … ebkit-svn/
for epiphany-webkit

webkitgtk-svn is already available in AUR

Roberth

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

By the way, arch linux doesn't normally support svn, of you are lucky it might appear in unstable.

Appearantly, the way epiphany is built is changed, could you post the updated one?

Last edited by Roberth (2007-12-20 16:43:49)

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arunvragh

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

It is svn, so it will automatically get the latest build. Just do makepkg in the folder you have extractd the tarball or files (whichever you download). If you have missing depenencies install them and you will be on your way.

Roberth

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

I'm using latest revision, the way it builds has changed.

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arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Don't get you. I just rebuilt it today with no issues.. Can you be more clear as to what are the problems you are experiencing?

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Hey, I haven't tried it yet, but it conflicts with regular epiphany right?

arunvragh

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Yes it does. It also installs to /usr/local/bin though when you check the PKGBUILD it clearly states prefix=/usr.

macros78

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Registered: 2006-10-13

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

I tried to build it today, but it finished with some errors...

Checking for required M4 macros...
  intltool.m4 not found
  gtk-doc.m4 not found
***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build epiphany
  were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
  macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
  ACLOCAL_FLAGS?

PKGBUILD: line 30: ./configure: Adresár alebo súbor neexistuje
PKGBUILD: line 31: --prefix=/usr: Adresár alebo súbor neexistuje
PKGBUILD: line 35: --enable-python: command not found
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Could you please send me your package? Or post it somewhere so I can download it. Thank you very much!

neodreams

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Registered: 2006-03-20

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

You need to install intltool and gtk-doc.

macros78

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Registered: 2006-10-13

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Thank you, it solved my problem.

Bapman

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Hi,

I tried to compile the package with your PKGBUILD, unfortunately I got this error :

Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.15.2' but version of GLib is 2.14.5
No package 'gio-unix-2.0' found

And I could not get glib-2.0 > 2.15.2, even in AUR. So could you give us your package which did not need this version of glib2 please ?

Zeqadious

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2007-10-15

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Probably not everyone's cup-of-tea, but I wrote my own epiphany-webkit-static PKGBUILD that compiles Glib2, WebKit, and gnome-desktop, into the epiphany binary.  This alleviates the need to have webkit-svn installed or upgrading your glib outside of the Arch's core repository.  Nice and simple and saves space.  For those interested: http://zeqadious.homelinux.net/arch-lin … c/PKGBUILD

have fun.

Zeq

Last edited by Zeqadious (2008-01-30 20:14:34)

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Bapman

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From: Ottawa, Canada

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Thank you it's perfect for me ! People who want to compile it need also the install script http://zeqadious.homelinux.net/arch-lin … ic.install

jnengland77

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From: Black Hills, USA

Registered: 2005-05-06

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Works pretty well so far.  I've only visited a few sites.  Anyway to use the old extnesions?   It would become my default webrowser if I could have the ad-block for it.  Also it's weird that you can't tab to the next input box.  It just goes the address bar instead.  Fonts are a little small also, but don't seem to change either.

~jnengland77

Last edited by jnengland77 (2008-01-30 23:42:05)

arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Works good. Actually the svn version of epiphany, I think has changed version dependencies that's why glib 2.15. But the static version works well and is actually simpler.

But plugins are not working , java, flash etc. It does not even recognize the plugins. Any iea how to go about this?

Zeqadious

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From: New York, USA

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Nope, not a clue.  I find midori and epiphany-webkit both extreamly buggy and limited atm.  Plugins such as java and Flash are the most annoying for me.

Zeq

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Zeqadious

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From: New York, USA

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Updated PKGBUILD.

Zeq

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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Would be nice if you could upload your PKGBUILD for the static-version to AUR.

skottish

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Re: Epiphany-Webkit-Svn

Gnome 2.22 RC 1 is due out in ten days. Glib 2.15 is part of that.