libwebkit2gtk-4.0 not available in Ubuntu 24 & Debian 13 repositories

[happybeing]

Describe the bug

The Tauri v1 pre-requisite libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev is not available in Ubuntu 24 repositories. This causes an error when installing the pre-requisites specified here, and when running cargo tauri dev on Ubuntu 24.

Note: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev is available but doesn't help with Tauri 1.

Reproduction

Run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    wget \
    file \
    libssl-dev \
    libgtk-3-dev \
    libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
    librsvg2-dev

reports:

E: Unable to locate package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev'

And cargo tauri dev:

The following warnings were emitted during compilation:

warning: javascriptcore-rs-sys@0.4.0: 

error: failed to run custom build command for `javascriptcore-rs-sys v0.4.0`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/home/mrh/src/safe-browser/awe/src-tauri/target/debug/build/javascriptcore-rs-sys-855dc84908b0218c/build-script-build` (exit status: 1)
  --- stdout
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=JAVASCRIPTCOREGTK_4.0_NO_PKG_CONFIG
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
  cargo:warning=
  pkg-config exited with status code 1
  > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mrh/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15/global/overlay/lib/pkgconfig: PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags javascriptcoregtk-4.0 javascriptcoregtk-4.0 >= 2.24

  The system library `javascriptcoregtk-4.0` required by crate `javascriptcore-rs-sys` was not found.
  The file `javascriptcoregtk-4.0.pc` needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory.
  PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains the following:
      - /home/mrh/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15/global/overlay/lib/pkgconfig
      - 

  HINT: you may need to install a package such as javascriptcoregtk-4.0, javascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev or javascriptcoregtk-4.0-devel.

warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

Workaround

I worked around this by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main

Then doing:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

Expected behavior

no errors

Full tauri info output

[✘] Environment
    - OS: Ubuntu 24.4.0 X64
    ✘ webkit2gtk-4.0: not installed
      Visit https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites to learn more about tauri prerequisites
    ✔ rsvg2: 2.58.0
    ✔ rustc: 1.78.0 (9b00956e5 2024-04-29)
    ✔ cargo: 1.78.0 (54d8815d0 2024-03-26)
    ✔ rustup: 1.27.0 (bbb9276d2 2024-03-08)
    ✔ Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (environment override by RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN)
    - node: 22.1.0
    - yarn: 1.22.5
    - npm: 10.7.0

[-] Packages
    - tauri [RUST]: 1.6.1
    - tauri-build [RUST]: 1.5.1
    - wry [RUST]: 0.24.7
    - tao [RUST]: 0.16.8
    - tauri-cli [RUST]: 1.5.11
    - @tauri-apps/api [NPM]: 1.5.3 (outdated, latest: 1.5.4)
    - @tauri-apps/cli [NPM]: 1.5.11 (outdated, latest: 1.5.12)

[-] App
    - build-type: bundle
    - CSP: unset
    - distDir: ../build
    - devPath: http://localhost:5173/
    - framework: Svelte
    - bundler: Vite

Stack trace

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Additional context

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