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RunIT-QT Browser 0.7 released

RunIT Browser (QWebEngine version) has reached its 0.7 version.

Notable improvements/changes:

new
  • Youtube and Netflix confirmed working on almost complete full screen mode.
  • Homepage is now pointing to StartPage search engine.
  • Window is resized to be larger and more useful from the beginning.
  • Addressbar improvements: google.com AND www.google.com AND https://google.com will resolve. -> https is auto appended into the front.
  • More verbosity added to statusbar(notices go back, go forward etc. functions on tabs).
  • UI is styled to be darker than before.
  • Tabs now have titles in them.
  • Back, forward etc. Now upgrade urlbar address like they should.
  • Ecosia replaces Wolfram Alpha on search engines.

Source code and more details are available at the Github: https://github.com/postman721/RunIT-QT_QWebengine

Fixing error on Debian 11: No module named py_compile

The root cause of an error is: /usr/bin/python3.9: No module named py_compile.

This will prevent python3 packages from installing as the dpkg errors out during configuration.

A more complete error example, will look something like this:


Setting up python3.9-minimal (3.9.2-1) …
/usr/bin/python3.9: can’t open file ‘/usr/lib/python3.9/py_compile.py’: [Errno
2] No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package python3.9-minimal (–configure):
installed python3.9-minimal package post-installation script subprocess return
ed error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3.9-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
…
/usr/bin/python3.9: No module named py_compile

Regardless of the package name, missing the py_compile will give plenty of issues. Here comes an easy fix.

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