Another Manjaro stable branch update 
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All good except some minor errors downloading from one repository/mirror. After several times trying, finally succeeded.
A little heads-up for those who still didn’t update and be prepared: the webkit2gtk package, in my case, compiled everything from source (8000+ files) and took 5 hours or longer, I had to leave it running overnight.
Regards.
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I used add/remove programs to uninstall it from my computers before updating. It seems that it has zero dependencies and looks to have been deprecated.
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I use stremio and it uses webkit2gtk.
Only for that I use the flatpak version of stremio to avoid hours of building time.
What is for you the package that uses the webkit2gtk as dependency.
Oh maybe I mistaken. Maybe stremio did use it in the past, installing from aur started to take long maybe 2 month or a bit longer ago.
I remember webkit2gtk in an application that tooook loonggg to build (hours)…
With stremio right now it is qtwebengine that takes long to download, but thats another thing.
Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading qtwebengine-5.15.19-lts.tgz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
100 3.60M 100 3.60M 0 0 3.98M 0 0
-> Downloading qtwebengine-chromium-87-based-20250423.tgz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
100 388.9M 0 388.9M 0 0 2.34M 0 02:45 4.02M^C
==> ERROR: TERM signal caught. Exiting...
- Have one machine with BambuStudio on it, which depends on
webkit2gtk, but dep failed build. Was able to remove it from the other two machines. - Two of three machines are missing some system font. The old
<<and>>left and right Mabox sidepanel menu icons (and volume icon) appear as unknown unicode glyphs like. On the third machine, everything displays correctly.
Edit: on one machine which did not render properly, it had ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common and ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols. Solution was as described below: mb-reset tint2. The top tint2 bar flashed as it was reloaded, then presto, problem solved.
The last PC was not as lucky. It also has the correct fonts, but mb-reset tint2 did not fix that one. Investigating…
Edit 2: fc-cache -f -v did not help.
- I’m not sure about the
webkit2gtkpackage, but it’s possible that it used to be required foryad. (Currently, yad useswebkit2gtk‑4.1, which is in the repo.) - As for Nerd Fonts in the menu and other places… everything should work without any user intervention. The icon‑fonts currently in use come from the package:
ttf‑nerd-fonts-symbolsorttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono.
Edit:
You can copy new tint2 panel configs to your home directory by:
mb-reset tint2
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Can I do it without GUI? (from TTY old-school terminals?) to leave it all night…
Yes, three times I had to stop it because I was not sure if everything was OK. There’s something wrong about the compilation. Takes as much as the kernel itself!
@lobaluna
Which program requires webkit2gtk?
A better idea might be to recompile it so that it uses webkit2gtk‑4.1…
In my case, it is brave-origin-bin.
I do not know exactly how to recompile with webkit2gtk-4.1. I saw the upstream maintainer recommended that way, but I’m not sure of such technicalities.
I compile it with leaving all resources to it, when in TTY only, all night long. It took +5 hours, as @M0nst3r said. This is just my little rant, but … what a waist of resources it is today! (at least, it is to me).
Something’s not right here…
webkit2gtk as a dependency for Brave sounds very, very strange.
So strange that I decided to check it on a VM with a fresh Mabox install.
And the entire installation of brave-origin-bin (from AUR) took 1 minute 16 seconds.
webkit2gtk is not needed for this at all.
