Tutorial: How to Install Espial on Elementary OS Latest

Espial is a minimalist web browser for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Espial on Elementary OS Latest. This process involves downloading the Espial source code from GitHub and compiling it on your system.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, please ensure that your system has the following prerequisites:

• Elementary OS Latest installed on your computer
• Terminal or Command Line Interface
• Git
• Build-essential (compiler and linker tools)

Step 1: Install Git

To download the Espial source code from GitHub, we need to install Git. To do this, open a terminal and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install git

This command will install Git on your system.

Step 2: Install Build-Essential

Next, we need to install the build-essential package. This package contains the tools we need to compile and link the Espial source code. Enter the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

This command will install the build-essential package on your system.

Step 3: Clone the Espial Repository

Now that we have Git and the build-essential package installed, we can clone the Espial repository from GitHub. To do this, enter the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/jonschoning/espial.git

This command will create a directory named espial in your current working directory and clone the repository to that directory.

Step 4: Compile and Install Espial

Now that we have the Espial source code on our system, we need to compile and install it. Change into the espial directory by entering the following command:

cd espial

Before we compile Espial, we need to install its dependencies. To install the dependencies, enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libenchant-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libappindicator-dev libreadline-dev

Now we can compile and install Espial. Enter the following commands:

make
sudo make install

This command will compile the Espial source code and install the Espial executable on your system.

Step 5: Launch Espial

Now that we have Espial installed on our system, we can launch it from the terminal. Enter the following command:

espial

This command will launch the Espial web browser on your system.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Espial on your Elementary OS Latest system.

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