Error compiling trunk under Natty (libwebkit 1.0)

Nitish Kumar nitish at nishmu.com
Tue Jul 26 14:16:47 EDT 2011


Hello Cristian,

> Hi Cristian,
>
> Am 24.07.2011 11:50, schrieb Cristian Marchi:
> > locate /usr/lib/libwebkit*
> > /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so
> > /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0
> > /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.6.0
> > /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-3.0.so.0
> > /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-3.0.so.0.6.0
> >
> > I just installed the packages suggested in the wiki.
>
> In Natty the package name 'libwebkit-dev' was transitioned to
> 'libwebkitgtk-dev'. Maybe you need to install that:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libwebkitgtk-dev
>
> Regards,
> Micha

I have a 11.04 installed, I am able to build Gnucash without any errors. In
my case, it was a *fresh* installation installed a month ago. I have only:
locate /usr/lib/libwebkit*
/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so
/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.6.0

Since you upgraded, as Micha notifies, there was a change in the package
name, may be the upgrade process did not update the link. As I see the error
you see is looking for the old name "libwebkit-1.0". I guess this should do:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so

-- 
- Nitish


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