Falkon is a KDE web browser using the QtWebEngine rendering engine. It was previously known as QupZilla. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.
Although falkon is now part of KDE, it can be installed without KDE (with the loss of kwallet functionality, and of translations of the (not-installed) example hellopython.py script).
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/falkon/3.0.1/falkon-3.0.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c6fb6433ac0f228667e2f763c02317c5
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 113 MB
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
extra-cmake-modules-5.49.0, qtwebengine-5.11.1
gnome-keyring-3.28.2, KDE Frameworks-5.49.0 (for ki18n if installing the translations of hellopython.py, or for kwallet and its dependencies), and PySide2 for experimental Python plugins (compiling this from source is very slow).
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/falkon
Install falkon by running the following commands:
Unless you have installed both PySide2 and ki18n, remove the translations for the sample hellopython.py script:
rm -rf po/
In case you wish to run the tests, fix one of them so that it will work correctly with both Qt-5.10 and Qt-5.11:
sed -i 's/"5.11.", 5) == 0 ? 1 : 2/"5.10.", 5) >= 0 ? 2 : 1/' \ autotests/webviewtest.cpp
Now build the program:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
.. &&
make
To test the results, issue: make
test. All tests should pass. If any fail, the full
results will be in Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log.
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you have installed Pyside2 you
will want to examine the hellopython.py which is in the
scripts/ directory, and perhaps copy
it to your home directory.
sed -i 's/"5.11.", 5) == 0 ? 1 : 2/"5.10.", 5) >= 0 ? 2 : 1/' ...: This test previously looked for QtWebengine-5.10 which had changed its result compared to earlier versions. In the move to Qt-5.11 the version was bumped but the results were swapped. Change it to examine if the version is at least 5.10, and to swap the expected results back.
Last updated on 2018-08-27 15:41:22 -0700