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I'm trying to get into developing for Elementary using Vala. I have been unsuccessfully trying to build Valama (an IDE for Vala) for ages but keep hitting hurdles.

Currently when I try to make Valama (having satisfied all dependencies) I get the following error:

error: Package 'webkit2gtk-3.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories

I have apt-get install'd both webkit2gtk-3.0 and webkit2gtk-3.0-dev but the error persists. Any idea how to fix this?

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For this kind of errors I always search in the AUR for missing dependencies, when I install all the dependencies the problem, most of times fixes, if not you should read the oficial git/webpage because maybe it can have bugs. So check out if you have installed this packages:

  • clutter-gtk
  • gdk-pixbuf2
  • gdl
  • glade
  • glib2
  • gtksourceview3
  • intltool
  • libgee
  • webkit2gtk
  • cmake
  • imagemagick
  • vala-0.26

I hope this information will help you, for me worked like a charm.

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The error message is coming from the Vala compiler and suggests the VAPI file is not being found for webkit2gtk-3.0. It looks likes Valama fixed this by adding webkit2gtk-3.0.vapi to its repository with this commit:

CMake: Add webkit2gtk-3.0 vapi to support vala < 0.26

Maybe that helps you a little. I tried building Valama on Fedora 23, but CMake reports:

-- Package 'webkit2gtk-3.0' not found CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:360 (message): A required package was not found

This is to do with the pkg-config file webkit2gtk-3.0.pc not being found. I didn't try any futher to repeat the error message you are getting.

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