diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index bab5e8dd..b607dc5a 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ native-dialog = "0.7.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 gtk = "0.15"
-webkit2gtk = "0.18" # if tauri build fails, make sure to match this version to what we have in tauri
+webkit2gtk = "2.0" # if tauri build fails, make sure to match this version to what we have in tauri
 dialog = "0.3.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dependencies]