Epiphany Browser in Trisquel 7?

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Dave_Hunt

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Hi,

I cannot find this in the repos; closest match seems to be
webbrowser-app; is this Ubuntu's name for Epiphany? In Trisquel 6
repos, it's known as epiphany-browser.

Thanks,

Dave H.

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Looking at Ubuntu's package list, it looks like Web should still be in the epiphany-browser package. What happens when you try to install it?

Dave_Hunt

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Epiphany browser is not available; here's the output of my attempt to
install it.

dave@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser
[sudo] password for dave:
no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package epiphany-browser is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'epiphany-browser' has no installation candidate

On 09/16/2014 05:43 PM, name at domain wrote:
> Looking at Ubuntu's package list, it looks like Web should still be in
> the epiphany-browser package. What happens when you try to install it?

Dave_Hunt

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What's more, I found Web in the 'add-and-remove-software' list, but
cannot install it. The state of the checkbox cannot be changed to
'checked' from 'unchecked', and synaptic is no longer accessible.

akfoss
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I reported an issue about this matter.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/12443

JadedCtrl
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I had that problem, as well, but I was able to install Epiphany with the gnome-staging PPA (ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging)- it allows you to install GNOME 3.12 and most GNOME applications, such as Maps, Epiphany, etc.

It runs like a charm.
(I'm pretty sure that the PPA has 100% free software; I'll have to look into it a little bit more.)