How to install WebKit based browsers on Ubuntu
How to install WebKit based browsers on Ubuntu
WebKit based browsers are made for web Developers. It is a layout engine software component for rendering web pages in web browsers. Let’ s see some of the WebKit based browsers in this article. Some of the WebKit browsers are shown below.
Arora:
Arora is a cross platform lightweight web browser based on webkit technology has been developed by Qt toolkit. Arora browser have some features like ClicktoFlash plugin, privacy mode, session management and smart location bar etc.
Konqueror:
Konqueror is the original Webkit based browser and it requires lots of KDE libraries in the Ubuntu system.
Rekonq:
Rekonq is lightweight and Webkit based web browser which is also based on KDE technologies. This is open source browser comes with lots of features like tabbed browsing, ad-blocker, support for add-ons, proxy support and more.
Installation procedure
To start with the installation procedure, use the below command to install Arora Browser in the terminal.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install arora -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libqt5script5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
arora libqt5script5
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 84 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,498 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,999 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libqt5script5 amd64 5.5.1+dfsg-2build1 [707 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 arora amd64 0.11.0+qt5+git2014-04-06-1 [791 kB]
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Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt5script5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-2build1) ...
Setting up arora (0.11.0+qt5+git2014-04-06-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
To install package for konqueror browser, run the following command and press y to continue with the installation process.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install konqueror -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
breeze-icon-theme docbook-xml docbook-xsl dolphin4 fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra icoutils kactivities kate-data katepart kde-baseapps-bin kde-baseapps-data kde-runtime
kde-runtime-data kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools kfind konqueror-nsplugins kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5
kpart-webkit kwayland-data kwayland-integration libattica0.4 libdlrestrictions1 libfam0 libgif7 libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4
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update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu to provide /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu (kdesu) in auto mode
Setting up dolphin4 (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kde-baseapps-bin (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kfind (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up konqueror (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up konqueror-nsplugins (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up ntrack-module-libnl-0 (016-1.3) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
To install rekonq browser, run the following command and install the package. press y to continue with the installation.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install rekonq -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libqoauth1
Suggested packages:
kget
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqoauth1 rekonq
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 84 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,156 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,120 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
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Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqoauth1 (1.0.1-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up rekonq (2.4.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Wasn' t that an easy installation process? These webkit browsers are made exclusively for developers.
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