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authorFlorian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>2019-07-17 19:06:12 +0200
committerFlorian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>2019-07-17 19:06:12 +0200
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Update install instructions
Fixes #4899
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@@ -3,31 +3,12 @@ Installing qutebrowser
toc::[]
-NOTE: qutebrowser recently had some bigger dependency changes for v1.0.0, which
-means those instructions might be out of date in some places.
-https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/contributing.asciidoc[Please help]
-updating them if you notice something being broken!
-
On Debian / Ubuntu
------------------
How to install qutebrowser depends a lot on the version of Debian/Ubuntu you're
running.
-Debian Jessie / Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / Linux Mint < 18
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Those distributions only have Python 3.4 and a too old Qt version available,
-while qutebrowser requires Python 3.5 and Qt 5.7.1 or newer.
-
-It should be possible to install Python 3.5 e.g. from the
-https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa[deadsnakes PPA] or via
-https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv[pyenv], but nobody tried that yet.
-
-If you get qutebrowser running on those distributions, please
-https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/contributing.asciidoc[contribute]
-to update this documentation!
-
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / Linux Mint 18
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -41,10 +22,10 @@ You'll need some basic libraries to use the tox-installed PyQt:
# apt install libglib2.0-0 libgl1 libfontconfig1 libx11-xcb1 libxi6 libxrender1 libdbus-1-3
----
-Debian Stretch / Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Debian Stretch
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Those versions come with QtWebEngine in the repositories. This makes it possible
+Debian Stretch comes with QtWebEngine in the repositories. This makes it possible
to install qutebrowser via the Debian package.
You'll need to download three packages:
@@ -68,11 +49,11 @@ downloaded qutebrowser deb files in one apt command):
For an update after the initial install, you only need to download/install the
qutebrowser package.
-Debian Testing / Ubuntu 18.04
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Debian Buster / Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / Linux Mint 19 (or newer)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-On Debian Testing, qutebrowser is in the official repositories, and you can
-install it with apt:
+With those distributions, qutebrowser is in the official repositories, and you
+can install it with apt:
----
# apt install qutebrowser
@@ -153,18 +134,12 @@ If video or sound don't work with QtWebKit, try installing the gstreamer plugins
On Gentoo
---------
-NOTE: Gentoo's packages used to be severely outdated for a long time, but are
-now (October 2017) maintained and up-to-date again.
-
qutebrowser is available in the main repository and can be installed with:
----
# emerge -av qutebrowser
----
-To use QtWebKit instead of QtWebEngine, you'll need a newer QtWebKit using
-https://gist.github.com/annulen/309569fb61e5d64a703c055c1e726f71[this ebuild].
-
If video or sound don't work with QtWebKit, try installing the gstreamer
plugins: