Hello I am running Xfce 4.12 on Mint, and really want to try out the latest version of Thunar. Forgive me if I'm being naive, but the README in the tarball says to refer to the INSTALL file for instruction on installation. However, I noticed that the INSTALL file is in the .gitignore. I'm not sure if this is on purpose; if so, very sorry for troubling you. I don't really know how to install it myself, I'm a bit of a n00b. Thanks!
Hi, please note that you will need to uninstall all thunar-plugins, in case you have some installed, since the API for thunar plugins changed between 1.6.x and 1.8.x ( If required you can build them from source as well ) if you want to build thunar from source, you will need to run the following: git clone https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/ cd thunar ./autogen.sh Probabaly ./autogen.sh will list some/many missing packages. Install the related packages in dev-version and run ./autogen.sh again, until all required dependencies are resolved. After that run: make make install ( Note that it possibly could be required to as well build exo from source ... depends on the packages provided by your distro ) ---- despite from that I will take a look on the INSTALL file & update it ( for me it is not in .gitignore )
Alexander Schwinn referenced this bugreport in commit 59374ec44214f1178032fdb7336e5dd0e7a77704 Fixed wrong/outdated/confusing installation manual in INSTALL (File INSTALL is not generated any more, but thunar-specific now) (Bug #14521) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit?id=59374ec44214f1178032fdb7336e5dd0e7a77704
Uh, you were right, it was in gitignore. INSTALL was automatically generated by autohell ... now it is thunar-specific and not telling lies any more.