How To Run Pentaho PDI 9.4 on Ubuntu 23.04

If you encounter this problem when running Pentaho PDI 9.04 (or may other versions as well), then you need to install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0. Of course, this is not the only library that you are missing. It is the main one.

The library libwebkitgtk-1.0 is missing.

The library libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 is not available on Ubunutu 23.04 (and some previous releases as well). So, you will get this warning message:

WARNING: no libwebkitgtk-1.0 detected, some features will be unavailable

You need to download the library from a repository for an older version of Ubuntu.

Step 1: Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe

Step 2: Run apt update 

#apt-get update

If you encounter this error message:

W: GPG error: http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32

You could modify your newly added entry to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb [trusted=yes] http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe

Also,

#apt-get install -qq software-properties-common

#apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32

Then running apt-get update again

#apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

The module canberra-gtk-module is missinginstall

If you encounter this error message:

Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

You can install the missing module by:

#apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module

Run Pentaho PDI

You can run the Pentaho PDI from the command line using:

~/App/pdi-ce-9.4.0.0-343/data-integration$ ./spoon.sh