Installing Foliate Ebook Reader on Slackware 15

Gregg

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:

  1. Download the foliate software tarball from here
  2. Install appstream-glib (which provides dependency appstream-util) using sboinstall
  3. Install webkit2gtk (which provides dependency WebKit2) using sboinstall
  4. 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”