How to install the missing shared library libQtWebKit.so.4?

Question

Does any one know where I can get this library: libQtWebKit.so.4

When trying to launch Clipgrab I now get the following error:

$ /home/pst007x/Applications/ClipGrab/clipgrab-3.6.1
/home/pst007x/Applications/ClipGrab/clipgrab-3.6.1: error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit

Solution

You can get it by installing libqtwebkit4:

sudo apt install libqtwebkit4

To figure out which package provides a particular file, you can use apt-file (install it by running sudo apt install apt-file). For the case of libQtWebKit.so.4:

$ apt-file search libQtWebKit.so.4
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4.10
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4.10.2

If you prefer to use a web browser, go to http://packages.ubuntu.com, search for libQtWebKit.so.4 in "Search the contents of packages" and you will get:

File                                            Packages
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4     libqtwebkit4 [arm64]
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQtWebKit.so.4   libqtwebkit4 [armhf]
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4        libqtwebkit4 [i386]
/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4     libqtwebkit4 [powerpc]
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4 libqtwebkit4 [ppc64el]
/usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4       libqtwebkit4 [s390x]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4      libqtwebkit4 [amd64]

Comments

[Gabor]

If you are required to use Vidyo for video conferencing, you also need to install libqtwebkit4 which is not mentioned on their help site. Thanks for providing this fix!

[dzmanto]

Confirmed that sudo apt-get install libqtwebkit4 also works in 18.04, 64 bit.

[karel]

libqtwebkit4 is no longer available in Ubuntu 20.04.