- gnome-commander-data on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
- 2. Uninstall / Remove gnome-commander-data package
- 3. Details of gnome-commander-data package
- 4. References on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
- 5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions
- A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
- UPDATE (December 27, 2020)
- UPDATE (July 19, 2020)
- UPDATE (January 28, 2021)
- Part 1 — Installation from source
- A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
- Download GNOME Commander
- Versions
- Latest release
- Sample scripts for the file popup menu
- Installation on your Linux machine
- External packages
- Gnome Commander Icon History
- gnome-commander on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
- 2. Uninstall / Remove gnome-commander package
- 3. Details of gnome-commander package
- 4. References on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
- 5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions
- A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
- Information
- Latest news
- About GCMD
- Bugs
- Mailing lists
- Authors
- Donations
gnome-commander-data on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install gnome-commander-data package:
2. Uninstall / Remove gnome-commander-data package
Please follow the guidance below to uninstall gnome-commander-data package:
3. Details of gnome-commander-data package
Package: gnome-commander-data
Architecture: all
Version: 1.14.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Source: gnome-commander
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 15164
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
Suggests: gnome-commander
Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-commander/gnome-commander-data_1.14.2-1_all.deb
Size: 4338388
MD5sum: 1246835883b9711844255c3001847e50
SHA1: 9e6ebfa39e731bc6e7b962578fa7048c0b352b55
SHA256: fd68c06d8d279ae1ac4dc01fd8b72c299758ec7e1c1f97bb4ed103ea50e2e4f6
SHA512: 238fb195a9ce72a3e95f81b83e7edfda5ecdac37dbf11f64ac536e0ece8dabc17cd53569e90b791c10a2ee2bb825090e56c14fb8b8cca077a34c7175af331317
Homepage: https://gcmd.github.io/
Description: Data files for GNOME Commander
Description-md5: 1847ee028828952d1ace39f9a9228ac6
4. References on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions
gnome-commander-data (1.4.8-1.1) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
gnome-commander-data (1.4.7-1build1) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
gnome-commander-data (1.14.2-1) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
Gnome Commander is no longer available in the Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and some other repositories due to the removal of old libraries used by GCMD . Until such time as that can be resolved it is necessary to manually install GCMD on Linux Distros which derive from Debian. Part 1 of this document will provide step by step instructions for compiling and installing GCMD from its source code. Part 2 will describe a method for installing GCMD on multiple computes without having to install all of the development packages on each computer.
The approach described below has been tested on Ubuntu Mate 18.04 on an Intel PC and on A Raspberry Pi 3B+, Ubuntu (Gnome) 19.04 and Linux Mint 19.1 on an Intel PC. It should work on most similar distros.
UPDATE (December 27, 2020)
GitHub user tromoto reported that it is possible to compile Gnome Commander on Ubuntu 20.04 with the use of external packages. He described his efforts in a comment on GitHub. As stated there, it is not needed to use GCC 8 explicitely, as GCC 9 is able to compile Gnome Commander out of the box. Also, you don’t need libgnome-2.0 and libgnomeui-dev. I removed the installation steps of these packages below.
UPDATE (July 19, 2020)
It has been reported by some users that the approach below is not working with Linux Mint 20 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
UPDATE (January 28, 2021)
New instructions are available for building GCDR on Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20. PLease check the Latest news on the home page.
Part 1 — Installation from source
The first step is to create a development environment with the necessary tools to compile gnome-commander. This can be done on an existing Ubuntu installation or to a new installation on a test computer or a virtual machine. Starting from scratch:
Install Ubuntu or related OS and install all available updates. Install the development environment by opening a terminal (command window) and executing these commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y build-essential itstool libglib2.0-dev libxml2-utils sudo apt-get install -y gtk+2.0
The computer is ready to build GCMD . Now it is time to obtain the source code.
Get the latest gnome commander source code from the Download section (currently gnome-commander-1.10.2.tar.xz). Right click on the link and “save as” to a convenient location on your computer. You may optionally verify the file with the sha256 check sum or gpg signature provided on the web site.
Locate the downloaded file and open it with your Archive Manager. Extract the contents of the archive to a convenient location (e.g. ~/development/ — it does not matter — even Desktop will work fine.)
If you prefer to do it all from the command line (make sure to check the web page for the location of the latest source tarball)…
mkdir ~/development cd ~/development/ wget https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-commander/1.10/gnome-commander-1.10.2.tar.xz . tar -xvf gnome-commander-1.10.2.tar.xz -C ~/development
In the terminal navigate to the top directory of the source (e.g. ~/development/gnome-commander-1.10.2/ ) and enter the command:
This will verify that all necessary packages are available and that the environment will support compiling GCMD . It should end by stating:
Type 'make' to build gnome-commander-1.10.2 and then 'make install' to install
A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
Download GNOME Commander
Versions
Latest release
gnome-commander-1.16.1.tar.xz.sig (Signature file for verifying the downloaded tar archive with gpg —verify gnome-commander-1.16.1.tar.xz.sig gnome-commander-1.16.1.tar.xz . My public key can be found on the Gnome Commander mainpage under the authors section.)
Older releases can be found on the GNOME download server.
Sample scripts for the file popup menu
Under this link some sample scripts can be found. Move them into ~/.gnome-commander/scripts/ to extend the file popup menu (usable since v1.6.0).
Installation on your Linux machine
There exist three very detailed installation HowTos, created by Ken Taylor(*). See here (deprecated) for the installation of Gnome Commander in CentOS and here for the installation in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Newly added are instructions for Ubuntu 20.04 here
Since Gnome Commander 1.16.0, the dependend build system switched from autotools to meson. Please take note on the Development page for more information.
External packages
Here is a list of links to external packages so you don’t have to build Gnome Commander by yourself. These are maintained by the distributions and not by the developers of GCMD . Some links may point to old versions of GCMD .
Gnome Commander Icon History
2003 | 2003 | 2006 | 2019 |
gnome-commander on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
This tutorial shows how to install gnome-commander package:
2. Uninstall / Remove gnome-commander package
Please follow the instructions below to uninstall gnome-commander package:
3. Details of gnome-commander package
Package: gnome-commander
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.14.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1639
Depends: gnome-commander-data (>= 1.14.2-1), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libexiv2-27 (>= 0.25), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.70.0), libgsf-1-114 (>= 1.14.24), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.6.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpoppler-glib8 (>= 0.18.0), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libtag1v5 (>= 1.9.1-2.2~), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
Suggests: meld
Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-commander/gnome-commander_1.14.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 512348
MD5sum: 7b78d61c700ade0348f5ee85c4f5a41f
SHA1: 318dd9c898807387e52ed036f1dc1c5d3a2e04cd
SHA256: 63e623552f50c52a9deef01fb058e8a84333959c49ee40329dd39f8974ebd354
SHA512: 802f5ee532e453b9289eb18a2e3e391a213b456535db9f6f0350d488b90418583d6b2254b17dfec5d64ebbb71c602b66ce7f54c0cb4b61eb0fc1c2cd80e64117
Homepage: https://gcmd.github.io/
Description: nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop
Description-md5: 5f78484c536c8371c962cfd4ed1ea8fb
4. References on Linux Mint 21 «Vanessa»
5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions
gnome-commander (1.4.8-1.1) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
gnome-commander (1.4.7-1build1) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
gnome-commander (1.8.1-bp153.1.22) openSUSE Leap
gnome-commander (1.12.3.1-1.1) openSuSE Tumbleweed
gnome-commander (1.14.2-1) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
A powerful file manager for the GNOME desktop environment
Information
07 Jul 2023:
Gnome Commander is a «two-pane» graphical file manager for the Linux desktop using GNOME libraries. It aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands.
Latest news
- 08 Jul 2023 » New Release: v1.16.1
- 22 Jan 2023 » New Release: v1.16.0
- 18 Jun 2022 » New Release: v1.14.3
- 27 Mar 2022 » New Release: v1.14.2
- 08 Mar 2022 » Gnome Commander back in Debian
- 01 Mar 2022 » New Release: v1.14.1
- 05 Feb 2022 » New Release: v1.14.0
- 21 Nov 2021 » New Release: v1.12.3.1
About GCMD
Gnome Commander is built on the GTK-toolkit and GIO.
- Support for tabs
- One instance mode
- User defined LS_COLORS colours
- Possibility to select/deselect files only
- GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions.
- Gnome mime types
- Network access through GIO.
- SAMBA (if GIO supports it).
- Mouse context menu that easily can be extended by entries calling any kind of external application like viewers, editors or custom scripts to work on selected files or directories.
- Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting («no-mount» option for just quick access to folders or otherwise automounted devices).
- Latest accessed folder history.
- Folder bookmarks.
- Plugin support under development.
- Fast internal file viewer for text, images and image meta data (Exif and IPTC).
- Quick file name search in current dir
- Symlinking, comparing directories.
- A tool for advanced renaming of files supporting various types of meta-data.
- Integrated command line.
Bugs
You can report or view Gnome Commander bugs at gitlab.gnome.org.
All users of Gnome Commander are very welcome to help us find, hunt down and kill bugs. 🙂
Mailing lists
There are two mailing lists for Gnome Commander which are hosted and controlled by the Free Software Foundation:
All posts from non-members are beeing held for approval due to spam reasons. Keep in mind that both lists are public and your email address can be seen by anyone!
Authors
Since 2013: Uwe Scholz (maintainer of source code and home page).
- u.scholz83 at gmx.de (GPG-Key Fingerprint )
Former managers and developers were
- Piotr Eljasiak († 2012), Project manager and main developer.
- Assaf Gordon, Developer (The internal viewer).
A special «Thank you» is addressed to Marcus Bjurman who was the original creator and former manager/developer. Marcus initiaded this project publicly in 2001 and developed it up to version 1.1.6 in 2004. Without him there would not have been any Gnome Commander.
Donations
Gnome Commander is open source software and it’s free. If you really want to donate something then let me point you to one of the following organizations:
. or any other of these kind.
And remember to celebrate the «I love free software day» on February, 14th.