GNOME Commander Installation

It's recommended to use the GNOME Commander package that is provided by your distribution. Refer to GNOME Commander for the list of distributions supporting GNOME Commander packages.

All current and historical releases can be found on the GNOME FTP server, too.

GNOME Commander is being developed in a stable and a testing branch, where the test releases fill the purpose of testing new ideas. Successful ones will then get backported to the stable branch. The version numbers (major, minor and micro) follows the quite usual standard of odd and even versioning, where odd minor versions stands for the unstable releases and the even numbered branch eventually gets the thoroughly tested new functions backported.

If you'd like to compile the latest stable version of GNOME Commander yourself, get it as a tar.xz file from the download section on the GNOME Commander home page.

After extracting the archive, first have a look at the README file, where you get an overview of the downloaded release. Also, have a look at the INSTALL file. The installation is explained in detail there.

For those of you who feel really adventurous, or maybe want to hack on the freshest code, the latest development source snapshots are available by using GIT:

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander.git

Just remember to run ./autogen.sh before building by make.