macOS
brew install webkitgtklocal Homebrew formula metadata
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webkitgtk のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
brew install webkitgtklocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1Fedora Rawhide package metadata · javascriptcoregtk4.1 · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
概要
GTK interface to WebKit
履歴
WebKitGTK is the GTK port of the WebKit browser engine. It provides an embeddable web view and JavaScript engine bindings for Linux and other GTK-based systems, serving applications that need anything from a small HTML/CSS UI surface to a full browser.
The old WebKit wiki described the GTK port as a browser component for the portable GTK UI toolkit, developed inside the official WebKit source tree and covered by WebKit buildbots and layout tests. That placement made WebKitGTK part of the upstream browser-engine project rather than a separate downstream fork.
The WebKitGTK project site, copyrighting the WebKitGTK Team from 2009 onward, presents the port as a full-featured WebKit rendering engine for hybrid applications, browsers, desktop computers, and embedded devices. It also identifies WebKitGTK as the official web engine of the GNOME platform and lists GNOME Web/Epiphany among browsers using it.
A major transition arrived with WebKitGTK+ 2.0.0 on March 31, 2013. That first stable 2.0 release built both WebKit1 and WebKit2 APIs by default, declared WebKit2 stable from an API/ABI compatibility perspective, and moved WebKit1 into maintenance mode. The shift aligned GTK embedding with WebKit's multiprocess architecture, improving isolation between web content and application UI.
WebKitGTK became important because Linux desktop applications needed an embeddable, maintained browser engine that matched GTK conventions. GNOME's use made it part of the default stack for applications that display web content, and the project has kept a stable-release process with security advisories for distributions and application maintainers.
The API-version story reflects both long-term compatibility and platform churn. As summarized by GNOME/WebKit maintainer Michael Catanzaro in 2025, supported upstream API versions included `webkit2gtk-4.0` for GTK 3 with libsoup 2, `webkit2gtk-4.1` for GTK 3 with libsoup 3, and `webkitgtk-6.0` for GTK 4. That history matters to packagers because different Linux distributions have carried different binary package names for the same API families.
Application developers use WebKitGTK to embed web content in GTK applications through stable C/GObject APIs. Typical uses include full browsers, documentation viewers, OAuth/login panes, desktop apps with HTML front ends, and embedded-device UIs that want WebKit's web-platform implementation without shipping a separate browser.
The modern WebKit2-style architecture separates web processes from the UI process, so a page crash or hang is less likely to bring down the embedding application. The project site also highlights GStreamer-backed media, accessibility work, GPU compositing, CSS transforms, and WebGL as part of the port's role as a complete web-platform component.
For package maintainers, WebKitGTK is a high-impact dependency because it is both a developer library and a browser engine with a security-update cadence. Its API names, GTK generation, libsoup generation, and distribution package names have real consequences for build compatibility across GNOME, Fedora, Debian, Homebrew, and smaller ports.
It is also one of the packages where the package name is history: `webkitgtk`, `webkit2gtk-4.0`, `webkit2gtk-4.1`, and `webkitgtk-6.0` encode shifts from WebKit1 to WebKit2, GTK 3 to GTK 4, and libsoup 2 to libsoup 3.
セキュリティ状態
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
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実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
WebKitWebDriver | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
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インストールメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:webkitgtk |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 2.52.5 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/webkitgtk |
| ホームページ | https://webkitgtk.org |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable |
| ライセンス | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.52.5.tar.xz |
| 最終更新 | 2026-07-09T14:20:56Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| 依存関係 | at-spi2-core, cairo, enchant, expat, fontconfig, freetype, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gstreamer, gtk+3, harfbuzz, icu4c@78, jpeg-turbo, jpeg-xl, libavif, libdrm, libepoxy, libgcrypt, libnotify, libpng, libsecret, libsoup, libtasn1, libwpe, libx11, libxcomposite, libxml2, libxslt, libxt, little-cms2, mesa, openjpeg, pango, sqlite, sysprof, systemd, wayland, webp, woff2, wpebackend-fdo, zlib-ng-compat |
| ビルド依存関係 | cmake, gettext, gobject-introspection, gperf, perl, pkgconf, python@3.14, ruby, unifdef |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 arm64_linux, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | webkitgtk |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Requirements |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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ソースデータベース一致
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
javascriptcoregtk4.1 2.53.3-2.fc45
JavaScript engine from webkit2gtk4.1
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1javascriptcoregtk4.1-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45
Development files for JavaScript engine from webkit2gtk4.1
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1-develjavascriptcoregtk6.0 2.53.3-2.fc45
JavaScript engine from webkitgtk6.0
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk6.0javascriptcoregtk6.0-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45
Development files for JavaScript engine from webkitgtk6.0
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk6.0-develwebkit2gtk4.1 2.53.3-2.fc45
WebKitGTK for GTK 3 and libsoup 3
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1webkit2gtk4.1-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45
Development files for webkit2gtk4.1
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-develwebkit2gtk4.1-doc 2.53.3-2.fc45
Documentation files for webkit2gtk4.1
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-docwebkitgtk6.0 2.53.3-2.fc45
WebKitGTK for GTK 4
sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0webkitgtk6.0-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45
Development files for webkitgtk6.0
sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0-develwebkitgtk6.0-doc 2.53.3-2.fc45
Documentation files for webkit2gtk5.0
sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0-docソース経路
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