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Install webkitgtk with Homebrew, dnf

GTK interface to WebKit. Version 2.52.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-05.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install webkitgtk

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · javascriptcoregtk4.1 · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

overview

Package summary

GTK interface to WebKit

Commands and aliases

  • WebKitWebDriver

history

Project history and usage

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.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

  • 2009: WebKitGTK project site copyright period begins for the WebKitGTK Team.
  • 2013-03-31: WebKitGTK+ 2.0.0 released; WebKit2 API considered stable and WebKit1 moved to maintenance mode.
  • 2014-09-24: WebKitGTK+ 2.6.0 released, part of the era that introduced the long-lived `webkit2gtk-4.0` API family.
  • 2021: WebKitGTK 2.32 introduced the `webkit2gtk-4.1` API family for GTK 3 with libsoup 3.
  • 2023: WebKitGTK 2.40 introduced the `webkitgtk-6.0` API family for GTK 4.
  • 2026-06-23: WebKitGTK 2.53.4 listed as the current unstable release on the project site.

Related projects

  • WebKitGTK is part of the broader WebKit project and is closely tied to GNOME, GTK, GObject, JavaScriptCore, GStreamer, libsoup, and GNOME Web/Epiphany. Its sibling WPE WebKit targets embedded and appliance-style environments.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 2 platform targets.
  • Installs with 41 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 9 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
WebKitWebDrivercliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.52.4
manager updated2026-07-05
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://webkitgtk.org

  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://webkitgtk.orgnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:webkitgtk
Version2.52.4
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/webkitgtk
Homepagehttps://webkitgtk.org
Repositoryhttps://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
Upstream docshttps://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.52.4.tar.xz
Last updated2026-07-05T23:07:19Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesat-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
Build dependenciescmake, gettext, gobject-introspection, gperf, perl, pkgconf, python@3.14, ruby, unifdef
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namewebkitgtk
Version Scheme0
Revision1
Requirements
  • linux
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

dnf95%

javascriptcoregtk4.1 2.53.3-2.fc45

JavaScript engine from webkit2gtk4.1

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 14 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: javascriptcoregtk4.1 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

javascriptcoregtk4.1-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45

Development files for JavaScript engine from webkit2gtk4.1

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk4.1-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 8 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: javascriptcoregtk4.1-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

javascriptcoregtk6.0 2.53.3-2.fc45

JavaScript engine from webkitgtk6.0

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk6.0
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 14 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: javascriptcoregtk6.0 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

javascriptcoregtk6.0-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45

Development files for JavaScript engine from webkitgtk6.0

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install javascriptcoregtk6.0-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 8 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: javascriptcoregtk6.0-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkit2gtk4.1 2.53.3-2.fc45

WebKitGTK for GTK 3 and libsoup 3

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 32 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkit2gtk4.1 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkit2gtk4.1-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45

Development files for webkit2gtk4.1

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 16 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkit2gtk4.1-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkit2gtk4.1-doc 2.53.3-2.fc45

Documentation files for webkit2gtk4.1

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-doc
  • License: MIT AND LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-3-Clause AND (Apache-2.0 OR GPL-3.0-or-later)
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkit2gtk4.1-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkitgtk6.0 2.53.3-2.fc45

WebKitGTK for GTK 4

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 32 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkitgtk6.0 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkitgtk6.0-devel 2.53.3-2.fc45

Development files for webkitgtk6.0

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND NCSA AND MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND MPL-1.1 AND SunPro AND Apache-2.0 AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 14 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkitgtk6.0-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

webkitgtk6.0-doc 2.53.3-2.fc45

Documentation files for webkit2gtk5.0

https://www.webkitgtk.org/

sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0-doc
  • License: MIT AND LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-3-Clause AND (Apache-2.0 OR GPL-3.0-or-later)
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: webkitgtk
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Webkitgtk
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: webkitgtk6.0-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

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