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Installing Elementary Files on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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I learned about elementary OS from Slashdot.  I currently use Nautilus and xfe, but am not 100% happy with either.  I thought I would give Elementary Files (the elementary OS file manager) a try.

  • sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev
  • Uninstall meson if you have it installed (e.g., sudo apt remove meson)
  • pip3 install meson – you need at least v0.50 (I think).
  • Add ~/.local/bin to your PATH if you haven’t yet.
  • sudo apt-get install -y valac libcanberra-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgail-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libnotify-dev libpango1.0-dev libplank-dev libsqlite3-dev libunity-dev libzeitgeist-2.0-dev
  • libcloudproviders-dev (bionic’s package isn’t new enough): git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/libcloudproviders.git ; cd libcloudproviders ; git checkout 0.3.0 ; meson build ; cd build ; ninja && sudo ninja install
  • libgranite-dev (bionic’s package isn’t new enough): git clone https://github.com/elementary/granite.git elementary-granite ; cd elementary-granite/ ; git checkout 5.2.5 ; meson build ; cd build ; ninja && sudo ninja install
  • Files (at last!): git clone https://github.com/elementary/files.git elementary-files ; cd elementary-files ; git checkout 4.2.0 ; meson build ; cd build ; ninja && sudo ninja install

Whew!  This is reminding me why we have package managers 🙂 .

Let me know if this doesn’t work for you — I may have missed something by accident.