Eclipse - Can't display Markdown file

By xngo on July 20, 2019

Issue

In Eclipse, when openning a Markdown file(*.md), it displays the following message:

Cannot display wiki markup preview: No more handles because no underlying browser available.
   Please ensure Webkit with its Gtk 3.x bindings installed. Webkit2 API level preferred.
 
No more handles because no underlying browser available.
   Please ensure Webkit with its Gtk 3.x bindings installed. Webkit2 API level preferred.

Solution

Before Debian 10 Buster, you can install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 package. Now, you need to install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 package to solve this issue.

apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Eclipse, Debian

About the author

Xuan Ngo is the founder of OpenWritings.net. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He loves to write about programming and open source subjects.