Installation

This extension is only compatible with Nautilus 43+.

nautilus --version

The extension can be installed via a package manager or installed manually. The following package management systems are supported.

• RPM (Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE)
• PKGBUILD (Arch, Manjaro, Garuda)

If a package for your OS is not available, you will need to install the extension using the manual installation instructions.

RPM Installation

The extension can be downloaded through the COPR project repo.

dnf copr enable grimbus/nautilus-avinfo
dnf install nautilus-avinfo

Alternatively, some pre-packaged RPM files are provided on the Releases page.

dnf install <path/to/nautilus-avinfo.rpm>

The source RPM and RPM spec are also provided on the Releases page if you wish to build the package yourself or your OS is not supported.

PKGBUILD Installation

The extension can be downloaded using the provided PKGBUILD file provided on the Releases page.

cd <directory containing PKGBUILD>
makepkg -si

Manual Installation

Install the meson build system and the appropriate development headers.Then build and install the project. See here for more details.

meson setup build
meson install -C build

To uninstall the extension, run the uninstall script.

meson compile -C build nautilus-avinfo-uninstall

Notes

The following files are installed by the extension.

• $(libdir)/nautilus/extensions-4/nautilus-avinfo.so
• $(localedir)/*/LC_MESSAGES/nautilus-avinfo.mo

The location of libdir and localedir may vary. See the table below for examples.

Distro	libdir	localedir
Arch Linux	/usr/lib	/usr/share/locale
Fedora (x64)	/usr/lib64	/usr/share/locale