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tlsa

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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[request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

Hi,

Could NetSurf be packaged for Archlinux?

NetSurf's web site is http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

It's in the AUR.

tlsa

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

Ah, excellent. Thanks and apologies.

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

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Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

Ah, excellent. Thanks and apologies.

But the URL you gave above works! The one in the PKGBUILD is broken.

BTW I cannot login to the AUR using netsurf.

tlsa

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 5

Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

I think you might find that if you reload the page after atempting to log in, that you are logged in. I'm not sure why NetSurf objects, but it says the redirect URL is bad.

tlsa

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

OK, it doesn't like the redirect because it redirects to itself. NetSurf doesn't follow the redirect to prevent it infinatly following the redirect.

However, in this case, it wouldn't get into an infinate loop because the server probably only serves up a redirect when the request is sent with POST data from the form.

paraflu

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 53

Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

Hi

i tried to compile netsurf with: yaourt -S netsurf
got an error message  :   pkg-config : command not found
then i tried : yaourt -S pkg-config  and got this:
warning  it seems like pkg-config was removed from AUR probably for security reasons. Please Abort.
pkg-config 0.20-1
I installed it anyway and after that netsurf did compile

So my question is : Is pkg-config really a security problem or did it only became an orphan.
If so , does anybody knows a way to compile netsurf without it

I only wanted to test it , there is no real need for it, but it looks promising and this would make further testing
impossible

Thanks

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

pkgconfig is an official package, in the core repo. Install it with pacman.

If you intend to build Arch packages, you should install the base-devel package group - pkgconfig is included, along with all other build utilities.

paraflu

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 53

Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

Thanks

I tried pacman -S pkg-config but there wasn`t any results so i thought it was only in AUR.
I didn`t think about trying pkgconfig. My mistake. :-)
I think you mean i have to install  core/devel   from abs to texinfo.
Now i can test netsurf without a hassle

Thank you for your answer.

tlsa

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 5

Re: [request] NetSurf - Lightweight web browser

NetSurf 1.2 was released today.

It fixes that logging into the AUR problem and loads of other stuf.

The whole build system has been updated. Now you just do 'make' instead of 'make gtk'. There is also a new document to help people packaging NetSurf:

http://source.netsurf-browser.org/trunk … KAGING-GTK

SVN HEAD still has features that NetSurf 1.2 doesn't have, because NetSurf 1.2 is just a bug fix release. SVN HEAD has SVG support and stuff, which won't make it into a release until NetSurf 2.0.