libwebkit2gtk-4.0 not available in Ubuntu 24 & Debian 13 repositories #9662
Description
Describe the bug
The Tauri v1 pre-requisite libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev is not available in Ubuntu 24 repositories. This causes an error when installing the pre-requisites specified here, and when running cargo tauri dev on Ubuntu 24.
Note: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev is available but doesn't help with Tauri 1.
Reproduction
Run:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
build-essential \
curl \
wget \
file \
libssl-dev \
libgtk-3-dev \
libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
librsvg2-dev
reports:
E: Unable to locate package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev'
And cargo tauri dev:
The following warnings were emitted during compilation:
warning: javascriptcore-rs-sys@0.4.0:
error: failed to run custom build command for `javascriptcore-rs-sys v0.4.0`
Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `/home/mrh/src/safe-browser/awe/src-tauri/target/debug/build/javascriptcore-rs-sys-855dc84908b0218c/build-script-build` (exit status: 1)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=JAVASCRIPTCOREGTK_4.0_NO_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:warning=
pkg-config exited with status code 1
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mrh/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15/global/overlay/lib/pkgconfig: PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags javascriptcoregtk-4.0 javascriptcoregtk-4.0 >= 2.24
The system library `javascriptcoregtk-4.0` required by crate `javascriptcore-rs-sys` was not found.
The file `javascriptcoregtk-4.0.pc` needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory.
PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains the following:
- /home/mrh/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15/global/overlay/lib/pkgconfig
-
HINT: you may need to install a package such as javascriptcoregtk-4.0, javascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev or javascriptcoregtk-4.0-devel.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
Workaround
I worked around this by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main
Then doing:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
IMPORTANT: it was recommended in this comment to undo the change to sources.list after installing to prevent problems with dependencies being deleted.
Expected behavior
no errors
Full tauri info output
[✘] Environment
- OS: Ubuntu 24.4.0 X64
✘ webkit2gtk-4.0: not installed
Visit https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites to learn more about tauri prerequisites
✔ rsvg2: 2.58.0
✔ rustc: 1.78.0 (9b00956e5 2024-04-29)
✔ cargo: 1.78.0 (54d8815d0 2024-03-26)
✔ rustup: 1.27.0 (bbb9276d2 2024-03-08)
✔ Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (environment override by RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN)
- node: 22.1.0
- yarn: 1.22.5
- npm: 10.7.0
[-] Packages
- tauri [RUST]: 1.6.1
- tauri-build [RUST]: 1.5.1
- wry [RUST]: 0.24.7
- tao [RUST]: 0.16.8
- tauri-cli [RUST]: 1.5.11
- @tauri-apps/api [NPM]: 1.5.3 (outdated, latest: 1.5.4)
- @tauri-apps/cli [NPM]: 1.5.11 (outdated, latest: 1.5.12)
[-] App
- build-type: bundle
- CSP: unset
- distDir: ../build
- devPath: http://localhost:5173/
- framework: Svelte
- bundler: Vite
Stack trace
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Additional context
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