Installing Foliate Ebook Reader on Slackware 15
May 30, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
I don't know about you, but I love reading ebooks and I've used Foliate before on other distributions but can't find it for my OS of choice, Slackware. So, here's how to install it from source:
- Download the foliate software tarball from here
- Install appstream-glib (which provides dependency appstream-util) using sboinstall
- Install webkit2gtk (which provides dependency WebKit2) using sboinstall
- Build foliate. Instructions are on the GitHub page or just extract the tarball, cd into the directory and then execute the following on the command line:
$ tar zxvf foliate-2.6.4.tar.gz
$ cd foliate-2.6.4
$ meson build --prefix=/usr
$ ninja -c build
$ ninja -C build
$ su -c "ninja -C build install"