PCManFM 1.0 and libfm 1.0 installation
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:32 pm
Hi, All. I decided to install PCManFM v1.0 from source instead of waiting for this major release to pop up in the repository. The reason for this is that I have been having some PCManFM problems ever since I installed LM12 LXDE. 
For example: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... it=pcmanfm
Still a great desktop manager though, and even better now! Check out the PCManFM v1.0 announcement on the blog: http://blog.lxde.org
With this post, I thought I would provide some instructions in case somebody else is thinking of upgrading and is looking for a quick guide.
1) Download both PCManFM-1.0 and libfm-1.0 to a working directory. I just made a 'pcmanfm' directory in my home directory. Current download links:
PCManFM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm ... z/download
libfm: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm ... z/download
2) Working in a terminal emulator (e.g., LXTerminal), unzip libfm-1.0 in the working directory:
$ tar -xvzf libfm-1.0.tar.gz
3) Change to the new 'libfm-1.0' directory and issue the following command:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
I found that I did not have a number of requirements, so I had to iteratively figure out each of those requirements (there were three) and run the 'configure' command again. For example, I did not have 'intltool,' 'libgtk2.0-dev,' or 'libmenu-cache1-dev' installed. There were a number of dependencies to install in addition to those three packages, but I just let synaptic take care of all that.
4) Upon successful completion of 3), issue the following command in the 'libfm-1.0' directory:
$ make
5) Optionally, you can run the following command to make sure everything compiled properly:
$ make check
6) Install 'libfm-1.0' by issuing the following command:
$ sudo make install
7) Working in a terminal emulator (e.g., LXTerminal) in the working directory, unzip pcmanfm-1.0.tar.gz:
$ tar -xvzf pcmanfm-1.0.tar.gz
Change to the new 'pcmanfm-1.0' directory
9) Issue the following commands in succesion, waiting for each to complete before the next:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install
10) Kill the current running version of PCManFM by issuing the following command from LXTerminal:
$ killall pcmanfm
11) When I tried to start PCManFM from the command line (e.g., $ pcmanfm --desktop), it indicated that a library (libfm-gtk.so.3) was missing. I found that the library was actually on my system (in /usr/local/lib/), but not in the place PCManFM was looking (/usr/lib/), so I created a link. I actually had to create two links to two different libraries (both libfm-gtk.so.3 and libfm.so.3). These are the commands that I used:
$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfm-gtk.so.3.0.1 libfm-gtk.so.3
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfm.so.3 libfm.so.3
12) Issue the following command to start PCManFM (or restart computer):
$ pcmanfm --desktop
So far, so good with PCManFM 1.0!
For example: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... it=pcmanfm
Still a great desktop manager though, and even better now! Check out the PCManFM v1.0 announcement on the blog: http://blog.lxde.org
With this post, I thought I would provide some instructions in case somebody else is thinking of upgrading and is looking for a quick guide.
1) Download both PCManFM-1.0 and libfm-1.0 to a working directory. I just made a 'pcmanfm' directory in my home directory. Current download links:
PCManFM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm ... z/download
libfm: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm ... z/download
2) Working in a terminal emulator (e.g., LXTerminal), unzip libfm-1.0 in the working directory:
$ tar -xvzf libfm-1.0.tar.gz
3) Change to the new 'libfm-1.0' directory and issue the following command:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
I found that I did not have a number of requirements, so I had to iteratively figure out each of those requirements (there were three) and run the 'configure' command again. For example, I did not have 'intltool,' 'libgtk2.0-dev,' or 'libmenu-cache1-dev' installed. There were a number of dependencies to install in addition to those three packages, but I just let synaptic take care of all that.
4) Upon successful completion of 3), issue the following command in the 'libfm-1.0' directory:
$ make
5) Optionally, you can run the following command to make sure everything compiled properly:
$ make check
6) Install 'libfm-1.0' by issuing the following command:
$ sudo make install
7) Working in a terminal emulator (e.g., LXTerminal) in the working directory, unzip pcmanfm-1.0.tar.gz:
$ tar -xvzf pcmanfm-1.0.tar.gz
Change to the new 'pcmanfm-1.0' directory9) Issue the following commands in succesion, waiting for each to complete before the next:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install
10) Kill the current running version of PCManFM by issuing the following command from LXTerminal:
$ killall pcmanfm
11) When I tried to start PCManFM from the command line (e.g., $ pcmanfm --desktop), it indicated that a library (libfm-gtk.so.3) was missing. I found that the library was actually on my system (in /usr/local/lib/), but not in the place PCManFM was looking (/usr/lib/), so I created a link. I actually had to create two links to two different libraries (both libfm-gtk.so.3 and libfm.so.3). These are the commands that I used:
$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfm-gtk.so.3.0.1 libfm-gtk.so.3
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfm.so.3 libfm.so.3
12) Issue the following command to start PCManFM (or restart computer):
$ pcmanfm --desktop
So far, so good with PCManFM 1.0!