Is there any way to Install Latest Nautilus File Manager in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
You can try to upgrade several important packages (gtk, glib, etc.) from the ricotz/testing ppa, then compile Nautilus 3.6 from source.
NOTE: Due to you are going to upgrade several important packages of your system, I strongly recommend to do this in a Virtual Machine or in a Test Machine only for testing purposes to see is everything is OK.
Make sure you have enable the "Source code repository"
In the Menu Bar choose Edit -> Software Sources. Click to enable "Source code repository". Just in case I use the "Main Server" to Download.
Then..
sudo apt-get update
1) Open a Terminal and install the following packages.
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtracker-sparql-0.14-dev wget
2) Install build dependencies.
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus
3) Add ricotz ppa and upgrade the system.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4) Trash-Full icon in nautilus-places.
Nautilus 3.6.3 use the following icon for the trash-full (user-trash-full-symbolic.svg), not present by default in Ubuntu 12.04.
You can grab the icon from Ubuntu 13.04 to put it in /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/ directory.
To avoid this:
Once you have the correct icon type in the Terminal.
sudo mv /path/to/trash/image/user-trash-full-symbolic.svg /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/user-trash-full-symbolic.svg
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome/
To look like this:
5) Create a folder to download the source code.
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mkdir ~/Downloads/src
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cd ~/Downloads/src
6) Download the nautilus 3.6.3 (raring) source code from Launchpad.
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/nautilus/1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16/+files/nautilus_3.6.3.orig.tar.xz
7) Extract the source code.
tar -xvf nautilus_3.6.3.orig.tar.xz
8) Basic steps to compile & install. (You can change the steps according to your needs, add prefix etc.).
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cd nautilus-3.6.3/
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./configure
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make
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sudo make install
9) Kill nautilus.
pkill nautilus
10) Just in case... set default prefereces like show-desktop-icons, no show trash-icon in desktop, etc.
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gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-visible false
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gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-visible false
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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
11) Finally reboot the system to see the changes.
Result:
Hope this helps.