Desktop client can't be installed on ubuntu 24 without using workarounds

[t-aleksander]

The libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 library which tauri depends on is not available in the default apt package repositories on ubuntu 24. There is only libwebkit2gtk-4.1. Client installation is still possible, but requires using some workarounds, as described here: tauri-apps/tauri#9662

[pboettch]

The minimal installation on a Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian testing environment for us was to download and install manually the following packages. This avoids temporarily adding apt-sources.

sudo dpkg -i libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37_2.44.3-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_amd64.deb \
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18_2.44.3-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_amd64.deb \
  libicu70_70.1-2_amd64.deb \
  defguard-client_0.4.0_amd64.deb

[maxime-morel]

Thank you for providing a workaround for installing the Defguard client on Ubuntu 24.04. However, manually downloading and installing older library versions can be challenging for users and may lead to other issues and dependency conflicts.

Do you plan to upgrade Defguard client to support libwebkit2gtk-4.1, which is available in the default repositories of Ubuntu 24.04?

This would greatly improve the installation experience for users on newer systems without requiring workarounds like that.