Ubuntu – How to install nemo extensions

nemosoftware installation

I have ubuntu 16.04 and Nemo file manager. I downloaded nemo file extensions from here:

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions

First, where are details of the extensions?

Second, how do I 'install' this extension from zip file in Ubuntu 16.04?

Best Answer

You can install the extensions from the zip file by opening up the zip file and compiling and building the extension that you want to install. You can build the extension by running from a terminal prompt:

$ ./build [extension name]

Replace extension name with the name of the extension you want to build. For example you could build the nemo-terminal extension with:

$ ./build nemo-terminal

During the compiling and build process you may get errors indicating that you need certain development packages. You can install a dependence package using apt-get. For instance once of the packages used for some of the extensions is libglib2.0-dev. If you don't have it installed you'd have to install it.

$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

Most of the github downloads will have instructions of how to build the packages included in the zip or the git-hub directory branch.

There may be occasions where you might have to read some of the comments on the site to resolve some of the issues the users are having when compiling and building some of the individual packages.

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