How to run this: Unknown #381

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1. Bob-A-Dook commented on May 13, 2026

   

   Bob-A-Dook

   on May 13, 2026

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   I managed to run this program on Zorin (Linux + DEB-package-based + GTK widgets) and PorteuX MATE (Linux + GTK widgets), so I can share some tips.

   The DEB package for Webapp Manager is available from linuxmint.com, you can select the latest version and download the file ending with .deb.

   By inspecting it with dpkg -I webapp-manager*.deb, we can see that it officially depends on these packages:

   gir1.2-xapp-1.0 (>= 1.4), python3, python3-gi, python3-bs4, python3-configobj, python3-pil, python3-setproctitle, python3-tldextract, xapps-common, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
   

   These should all be automatically downloaded and installed on DEB-based distros, so they're not an issue.
   However, this package also has other dependencies not listed here.

   One is xapp-symbolic-icons, without which no icons are shown.
   There's also this issue about the application lagging without python3-gi-cairo.
   ...And there might be some more. Keep it in mind if any bugs occur.

   Installation on Zorin

   On Zorin, I just downloaded the DEB file linked above, double-clicked it, then clicked Install, waited for the installation to complete. Then I also installed the hidden dependencies:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install xapp-symbolic-icons python3-gi-cairo
   

   Here's Webapp Manager running on Zorin, including icons and translations:

   

   Installation on PorteuX MATE

   On PorteuX, you can:

   • download the source code (git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager.git),
   • run the make command inside the source code folder to create the translations,
   • copy the folders usr and etc from the source directory to a separate, empty one,
   • create an XZM module out of this folder (with dir2xzm FOLDER),
   • merge this module with all the dependencies (official and hidden) gathered from various sources and converted to their own XZMs (mergexzm MAIN.xzm OTHER_XZMS).