Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/epiphany/47/epiphany-47.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8a9d87f1c95a46f8bd7428745b8fc262
Download size: 3.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 48 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; both using parallelism=4)
Gcr-4.3.0, gnome-desktop-44.1, ISO Codes-4.17.0, JSON-GLib-1.10.0, libadwaita-1.6.1, libportal-0.8.1, Nettle-3.10, and WebKitGTK-2.46.3 (built with GTK-4)
appstream-glib-0.8.3 and Granite
gnome-keyring-46.2 (for storing passwords) and Seahorse-47.0.1 (for managing stored passwords)
Editor Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/epiphany
If you are upgrading from a epiphany-46 or earlier, remove some
files that will cause a crash at runtime if they are present as
the root user:
rm -rf /usr/lib/epiphany
Install Epiphany by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR” method,
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the
following command as the root
user:
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
One test would fail if this package is not installed, so it's better to run the test suite after installation. To test the results, issue ninja test. The tests must be run from a graphical session.
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.