Nautilus-3.8.2

Introduction to Nautilus

The Nautilus package contains the GNOME file manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Package Information

Nautilus Dependencies

Required

gnome-desktop-3.8.4 and libnotify-0.7.6

Recommended

Optional

Exempi-2.2.1, GTK-Doc-1.19, libexif-0.6.21, and Tracker

Recommended (Runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nautilus

Installation of Nautilus

Install Nautilus by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --disable-tracker    \
            --disable-packagekit \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/nautilus &&
make

This package needs to be installed before its testsuite can be run.

Now, as the root user:

make install

To test the results, issue: make check.

Command Explanations

--disable-packagekit: This switch disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS.

--disable-tracker: This switch disables use of Tracker which isn't part of BLFS.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: nautilus, nautilus-autorun-software and nautilus-connect-server
Installed Library: libnautilus-extension.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/nautilus, /usr/lib/nautilus, /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnautilus-extension, and /usr/share/nautilus

Short Descriptions

nautilus

is the GNOME file manager.

libnautilus-extension.so

supplies the functions needed by the file manager extensions.

Last updated on 2013-09-04 14:37:09 -0700