Dolphin File Manager

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[edit] Pisi install

Dolphin is available trough the contrib repo. ( See : Contrib_repository )

Then install it :

 sudo pisi install dolphin

[edit] Manual install

The following is a guide to compiling and installing the Dolphin file manager for Kde. This does not create a pardus pisi package, but uses the traditional, configure, make, make install method

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1. Head over to the Dolphin kde-apps webpage and download the latest release; http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=40491

2. Extract the source code from the compressed file from where you downloaded it to. This can be done via right clicking on the file and choosing extract.

3. Enter the directory where you downloaded the file e.g. /home/tuxedup/downloads/dolphin/

4. Press the F4 key to open a terminal in the directory. Now run the configure script;

./configure

The configure script will begin scrolling various messages, this is where the script checks to make sure that the tools required to compile the application are installed. Dolphin compiles fine as all the required tools are already installed. However if a tool was missing, the configure script will quit once it has found and error telling you what is missing. You should then install the required package to resolve the problem. After this you may be informed that other tools are missing , again resolve these until no errors are reported.

Keep the terminal open.

5. Now run the make command;

make

The make compiles the source code into the actual executable code. All the code is contained in the the current directory, it is not yet installed system wide. (Better description is needed)

Keep the terminal open.

6. Now run the make install command;

su

ENTER YOUR ROOT PASSWORD

make install

The make install command takes the compiled application and moves it into the system directories e.g. /usr/, /etc/ /bin/, etc.

Once the make install process has been completed, the application can be run like any other.

Note. It is advisable to keep the sourcecode on the system in its current form. The reason for this being that if you ever want to remove the application in the future, you will have to run the make uninstall command as the application cannot be removed by the package manager.

If in the future you wish to remove the application, open the directory containing the source code we have just compiled, press F4 to open a terminal and enter: