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Jiří Janoušek edited this page May 6, 2017 · 6 revisions

Nuvola Player uses the WebKitGTK web rendering library provided by your system in order to show a user interface of web apps. Unfortunately, distributions don't generally upgrade the WebKitGTK library until the next release of the whole distribution. As a result, web apps may stop working properly with older WebKitGTK libraries and an upgrade is necessary as described in the rest of this page.

Recommended Solution

Use cross-distribution flatpak builds of Nuvola 3.1, which contains the latest stable version of WebKitGTK+.

Obsolete Solution

Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementaryOS

The Nuvola Player team provides new WebKitGTK releases in the WebKit for Nuvola Player PPA at Launchpad. To install them, type following commands to a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/webkit
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Debian

There is an updated WebKitGTK package for Debian Jessie in the Debian Backports repository. To install it, type following commands to a terminal window as root:

echo 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main' \
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -t jessie-backports libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

Fedora

Fedora provides updated WebKitGTK releases as security updates of the webkitgtk4 package.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux always ships up-to-date WebKitGTK releases.