[Linux installation] Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

[RomanPro100]

I actually had this problem when installing version 0.7.1, but it has remained in 0.8.0 so I decided to report it.

When I tried to install Kanri on Linux Mint 22 using the deb x86-64 package, I ran into a problem with this one dependency, libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:

It is not available in the repos provided by Linux Mint because apparently there's a newer version available:

The workaround I found was to add the Ubuntu focal-security repo:

Then after running sudo apt update it is available to install:

Adding a whole new repo to system sources for just a single package doesn't seem right to me and I believe this should be fixed.

[trobonox]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Unfortunately, I'm unable to solve this issue until I finish migration for the underlying framework used to build the app to a new version (Tauri). This requires quite some few changes and needs a lot of testing, so I am unsure when I will find the time to work on it. Once that process is done, it should feature the new webkit2gtk version and solve these compatibility issues.

Either way, I generally recommend using the AppImage because it includes all dependencies and improves compatibility across all distros. Balancing backwards compatibility and also making things work on the latest distros is not an easy task and I mostly rely on Tauri here.