Using old version of nautilus

[glypto]

Can the old version of nautilus (the one used in 12.04) be installed in Ubuntu 13.04? Nautilus 3.6.3 SUCS!.

[ibjsb4]

This is untried by me since I only run 12o4, but you could download the file and dpkg -i.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd64/nautilus/download

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/reference-guideubuntu-package-management-using-dpkg.html

or


man dpkg

On a side note, what have they done to nautilus now?

[glypto]

Number of features removed form Nautilus: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-step-in-the-direction-poll
Thanks for the answer, will give it a try.

[ibjsb4]

Hope it works for you. And thats sad about the new nautilus.

[zombifier25]

Though that is possible, personally I wouldn't try it because it might turn into a horrifying cluster**** of dependency problems.

There are other file managers that you can try. Marlin is a pretty good one, but I don't know if it has the features you want (currently on 12.04, which means Nautilus is fine, so I don't want to install Marlin for now)

[VanillaMozilla]

I don't really know what most of those features are that have been removed, but you could always try some of the file managers from the Ubuntu spins, like Thunar or PCManFM. Don't forget to check the View and Preferences menus. Sometimes features just get turned off.

[VanillaMozilla]

Arghh. This version I am using (3.4.2) lacks a text field for the path. Very inconvenient. That's a shiny new installation of Precise.

Furthermore, it tells me I am looking at /home/Home, which is complete baloney.


[red face]
EDIT: Well, it turns out that the Main Toolbar is what you want to display the text field. And I don't know what gets rid of that /home/Home nonsense, but something does. [/red face]

EDIT AGAIN: No, that stuff really is messed up on some computers. Perhaps it depends on the theme or some darned thing.