Midori browser under Ubuntu Hardy and last Webkit

Par Kagou le mardi, avril 22 2008, 05:55 - Ubuntu - Lien permanent

After the post on "How to compile the last webkit" Now i will show you how to compile the Midori browser, with the last Webkit.

Get the last webkit

Go to http://webkit.org/
Download the last nightly archive for Linux (r32268 for this post)
Unzip the archive
Open a Terminal and go in the new folder

Installation of packages needed

For a webkit build you need to install :
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool bison flex gperf libicu-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtk2.0-dev build-essential

Webkit compilation

Compilation preparation :
./autogen.sh

And :
./configure --enable-svg-experimental

Launch compilation with :
make

Installation with :
sudo make install

Midori

We need git to download Midori sources :
sudo apt-get install git-core curl

We need some packages :
sudo apt-get install cdbs debhelper fdupes gettext html2text intltool intltool-debian libsexy-dev po-debconf

Download of Midori sources :
git clone http://software.twotoasts.de/media/midori.git

Go in the directory :
cd midori

Preparation :
./autogen.sh

And :
./configure

Compilation :
make

Installation :
sudo make install

Last step :
sudo ldconfig

Test

You can create a launcher (right click on desktop), launch it under the terminal or with Alt+F2 -> midori

Result

Commentaires

1. Le mardi, avril 22 2008, 11:02 par Bertrand

Superb tutorial. Worked fine except that I only get 99/100 on the Acid 3 test. Not that it matters, but well..... Also I have an important question, is it possible to play Flash files with that browser? Like Youtube stuff, deezer.com or whatever?

Anywho, thanks.

2. Le mardi, avril 22 2008, 11:23 par Bertrand

And by the way, I see shadows everywhere, it sure looks nice, but it also makes it somehow harder to read. Is there a way to disable them?

3. Le mardi, avril 22 2008, 11:26 par Bertrand

4. Le lundi, mai 5 2008, 23:39 par fresno

I actually compiled this on my own before I got here, and you should be able to see flash. I can anyway. What I want to know is how to convince it to open pdf files in another program instead of displaying the raw data. It doesn't want to download them either.

5. Le lundi, mai 5 2008, 23:40 par fresno

6. Le mardi, mai 6 2008, 01:16 par Bertrand

Plugin support for WebKit/GTK was added a few days ago. It wasn't available at the time I built my own, so that's why I didn't have Flash support.

7. Le mercredi, octobre 22 2008, 02:33 par jcanholas

good work man, i've done that tutorial and now i've flash running at midori

8. Le dimanche, janvier 4 2009, 19:48 par Daniel

In the latest version of the midori source, there is no configure file. Instead do:

./waf configure
./waf build
./waf install

And uninstall with
./waf uninstall

9. Le mardi, août 4 2009, 01:11 par ed hardy

Midori is great man

KBU (Kagou Blog Ubuntu)