Install capyabara-webkit gem on Amazon Linux AMI

Question

I am trying to install the capybara-webkit gem on Amazon Linux AMI release 2017.09.

I tried following the install instructions for CentOS (maybe the wrong approach):

sudo yum install -y epel-release
sudo yum install -y qt5-qtwebkit-devel

The first package installed fine, but qt5-qtwebkit-devel gave the following error:

Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.6.1-3.el6.x86_64 (epel)
       Requires: libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.6.1-3.el6.x86_64 (epel)
       Requires: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.6.1-3.el6.x86_64 (epel)
       Requires: libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.6.1-3.el6.x86_64 (epel)
       Requires: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I am unable to resolve the libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 dependency in Amazon Linux. I tried installing libX11-devel but that did not resolve the issue.

Of course gem install capybara-webkit -v '1.10.1' fails because qt5 is not installed.

I found a blog with instructions for installing capybara with qt-4.8, I would rather use the latest version and would prefer to use a package manager instead of compiling the package manually.

My question is, how can I install capybara-webkit on Amazon Linux AMI using the package managers?

Answer 1

Amazon AMI doesn’t have a yum repo for the libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. So you need to install other distro packages. In this case, did used CentOS.

$ sudo yum install ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/hicolor-icon-theme-0.11-1.1.el6.noarch.rpm

$ sudo yum install ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/atk-1.30.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

$ sudo yum install ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/gdk-pixbuf2-2.24.1-6.el6_7.x86_64.rpm

$ sudo yum install ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/gtk2-2.24.23-9.el6.x86_64.rpm

Once the packages are install the setup should work for you

PS: Source https://ubunifu.co/python/installing-libgtk-x11-2-0-so-0-in-amazon-linux-ami-2017-03-1

Answer 2

I'm using chef but this is where I got the necessary dependencies. just add this repo to yum repos, and then do the install

yum_repository 'centos-base' do
 url 'http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/'
 gpgkey 'http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6'
 action :add
end

package 'qt5-qtwebkit-devel'