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nautilus-follow-symlink / caja-follow-symlink
nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus (GNOME Desktop) extension.
caja-follow-symlink is a caja (MATE Desktop) extension.
They adds a menu entry on symbolic links to directories which open the pointed directory (the real path).
They do so both when right clicking on the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.
Homepage: https://p.outlyer.net/nautilus-follow-symlink
Installation
I provide both deb
packages to download and install manually, e.g.:
dpkg -i nautilus-follow-symlink_1.2.1-pon.1_amd64.deb
Building packages from source
DEB package
tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.1
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
# or
debuild -us -uc -b
RPM package
rpmbuild -tb nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.1.tar.gz
Building from source
Download the tarball and follow the traditional configure
+ make
workflow, e.g.:
tar xvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
Building from the git repository
Building from the raw source in the repository requires the autotools.
git clone https://git.outlyer.net/outlyer/nautilus-follow-symlink/
cd nautilus-follow-symlink/nautilus
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install